Strategizing

Paula Jarzabkowski

Chapter 2.41 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 266-269 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The term strategizing is a gerund, which, drawing from Weick (1969), refers to shifting the focus on an organizational concept that is typically considered a noun – in this case strategy – to a verb in order to examine it as an activity or a matter of doing. The shift to gerunds is fundamental theoretically and methodologically, as it means changing from studying organizational phenomena as reified entities, to studying how those phenomena are performed or brought into being within actions. The gerund “strategizing” is an underlying principle within SAP, which is that strategy is not something organizations have (a noun), but something that people and organizations do (a verb). Hence, strategizing is consistent with the social practice theories that are the background to SAP theorizing, examining how the stream of activity labelled as strategy is brought into being.

Keywords: Strategizing; Origins; Definitions; Gerund; Organizational concept; Strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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