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Strategy as staged performance: A Critical Discursive Perspective on Keynote

Firms increasingly rely on keynote speeches to communicate their strategies. As a result, managers invest more and more time and effort into preparing and rehearsing their keynote speeches. But how…

If You Want to Innovate, Follow These 5 Steps

How do innovators from lower levels of an organization gain approval for their innovations especially when their ideas do not readily fit their organization’s strategy? To explore this question, we…

JP Eggers: Reversing Course: Competing Technologies, Mistakes, and Renewal in Flat Panel Displays

Firms facing technological uncertainty may need to recover from unlucky bets. But responding to failure is politically and organizationally difficult. This study explores how IBM recovered from its failed bet…

Strategic Concepts as MicroLevel Tools in Strategic Sensemaking

Our analysis helps to understand the role of strategic concepts, that is, specific words or phrases with established and at least partly shared meanings, in an organization’s strategy process. We…

The Power of Powerpoint: A Visual Perspective on Meaning Making in Strategy

The purpose of this study is to understand how strategists use visual information (specifically in PowerPoint slides), and its effects on the strategy process. We find that strategy conversations are…

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A firm’s celebrity or reputation can guide how it responds to media scandalization of its misconduct

Misconduct can cost a company, but it can morph into a full-fledged disaster when that incident is scandalized in the media. A new study published in the Strategic Management Journal…

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SEJ: New Study Suggests a Strong Link Between Social Entrepreneurship and Language

The rise in social entrepreneurship over the last 20 years denotes a major global economic and political movement. Social entrepreneurs generate substantial positive outcomes, but while they make up 2% or…

SEJ Video Abstract | Strategic leadership in liminal space

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Strategic Management of Fault Lines, Contradictions, and Divergences

Strategy Imagination Forum: Work Will Never Be the Same featuring Deborah Lovich, BCG

In this Strategy Imagination Forum session, Deborah Lovich, Managing Director & Senior Partner at the Boston office of Boston Consulting Group, examines four critical areas: how we work, how we…

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