Practitioners

Richard Whittington

Chapter 2.30 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 219-224 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry introduces exemplary research on several key types of strategy practitioners, in particular senior managers, middle managers, strategic planners, strategy consultants and finally those employees who come to be practitioners through open strategy initiatives. Questions include how practitioners protect and enact their often-precarious roles in strategy and what skills and practices they need. The last pair at least is relevant to our teaching as well as to our research: skills and practices are what practitioners look for in our classrooms. Moreover, in helping more marginal practitioners, we are also exercising a duty of care. Practitioners deserve our empathy. Looking to the future, the entry finishes by proposing V-shaped programmes of research on strategy practitioners, involving both close engagement and larger-scale studies.

Keywords: Practitioners; SAP; Strategy-Making; Managers; Consultants; Carriers of practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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