Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to this PDW in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:city>
PDW: STRATEGY AS PRACTICE - PUTTING THE MANAGER BACK INTO STRATEGY
WHERE: <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> 2006, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">GA</st1:state></st1:place>
WHEN: Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:00AM - 12:00PM
LOCATION: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city></st1:place> Marriott Marquis - International 6 Room.
WORKSHOP BACKGROUND
The last four years has witnessed an exciting development in the strategy field predominantly (but not exclusively) based in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, often referred to as Strategy-as-Practice.
The dominant approach in strategy research has come to be a concern for strategies as that which organizations have and the largely ex post reasons for why. We take a different view. Strategy is something that people do. Strategy is an activity. Our concern is therefore to re-focus strategy research quite literally onto what people who manage and develop strategy actually do. (For some background reading on these ideas and their implications see www.strategy-as-practice.org and www.strategic-management.de/PDW_paper_May06.htm)
This workshop offers an opportunity for interested researchers to learn about this dynamic research agenda which:
* Is concerned with the activities, rather than properties of strategy; in other words, with the dynamism of doing in relation to strategy;
* And the strategic implications and impacts of people's actions.
* Therefore, no longer an exclusive interest in the fate of organisations as wholes, but in the practical performance of the actors involved in the doing of strategy.
SPEAKERS
* Gerry Johnson, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Strathclyde</st1:placename> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Ann Langley, HEC <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Montreal</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place>
DISCUSSANTS
* Julia Balogun, <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Ian Clarke, <st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Deborah Dougherty, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Rutgers University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Mark Easterby-Smith, <st1:placename w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Paula Jarzabkowski, <st1:placename w:st="on">Aston</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> and Advanced <st1:placetype w:st="on">Institute</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management</st1:placename> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Research</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Leif Melin, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jonkoping International Business School</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* Patrick Regner, <st1:city w:st="on">Stockholm</st1:city> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">School of Economics</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place>
* David Seidl, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Munich</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place>
WORKSHOP FORMAT
1. History and Background to the Strategy as Practice Agenda - Gerry Johnson
2. Round Table Discussions with discussants: The Need for Strategy-as-Practice
3. Theoretical and Methodological Issues - Gerry Johnson and Ann Langley
4. Round Table Discussions involving the discussants: Doing Research on Strategy-as-Practice
5. Plenary - Q and A with the speakers and discussants
REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED - ALL WELCOME!
Dr Paula Jarzabkowski
AIM Ghoshal Fellow
Reader in Strategic Management
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Aston</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Aston</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:city> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">B4 7ET</st1:postalcode>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Tel: +44 (0)121 204 3139
Mob: +44 (0)7951 222 114
Fax: +44 (0)121 204 3306
Webpage:
http://www.abs.aston.ac.uk/newweb/staff/detail.asp?sfldStaffID=A0000633
Strategy as practice Webpage:
http://www.strategy-as-practice.org
New book: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/book.aspx?pid=106986