Researching large-scale phenomena

Renate Kratochvil, Theresa Langenmayr and David Seidl

Chapter 3.15 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 342-344 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) scholars are increasingly interested in researching large-scale phenomena that emerge within an organization, industry, field, or society due to broader social, cultural, economic, environmental, political, and technological trends. Examples include digitalization, migration, war, and social inequalities. In SAP research, scholars explore such large-scale phenomena through a focus on practices—sayings and doings—describing how actors constitute and reproduce those phenomena within their local context. Empirically exploring large-scale phenomena through a focus on practices poses several methodological challenges. This entry highlights three challenges and exemplary solutions that are related to (1) the drawing of boundaries around large-scale phenomena, (2) the capturing of dispersed yet connected practices, and (3) the ascertaining of links between the practices.

Keywords: Large-scale phenomena; Macro; Methods; SAP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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