Les stratèges face à la stratégie: tensions et pratiques

Stéphanie Dameron and Christophe Torset
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Stéphanie Dameron: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Management & Organisation - DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Research on strategy has raised many distinctions, oppositions and disjunctions. In this article, we propose a dialogical representation of strategizing as the art of balancing tensions. Based on the content analysis of 68 interviews with strategists who hold different positions in or outside organizations, our results highlight four main tensions that surround strategists' discourse : social, cognitive, focus and time tension. These tensions compose a dialogical representation of strategy that combines a "strategy" perspective with an "antestrategy" conception of strategy work. Strategists share this tension-based representation of strategy, but they use it differently in their discourse, constructing a subjectivity that maximises their control and power on strategy work.

Keywords: Théories de la stratégie comme pratique; conception de la stratégie; discours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2012, 38 (223), ⟨10.3166/rfg.223.27-41⟩

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DOI: 10.3166/rfg.223.27-41

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