Book chapters
Year
2010
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to show how Bourdieu’s praxeology contributes to a better understanding of strategizing as a practice. Bourdieu’s framework proposes a relational and dispositional view of social life, with the concepts of field, capital, and habitus. This framework can contribute to advancing strategy-as practice research by overcoming the dichotomies that shape but constrain research in strategy: the micro/macro alternative, the opposition between structure and agency, and the dilemma between rationality and emerging strategy. It broadens our view of strategy by enlarging the vision of strategizing as a practice performed by a large spectrum of agents who seriously engage in struggles to dominate the field, and by taking into consideration the role of academics in these struggles.
GOMEZ, M.L. (2010). A Bourdieusian Perspective on Strategizing. Dans: Damon Golsorkhi, Linda Rouleau, David Seidl, Eero Vaara eds. Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, pp. 184-198.