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"For strategy and organization studies scholars in business and management, defence studies, public policy and government. We argue for a fundamental reversal of strategy. No longer about calculating and controlling the world, it becomes an organizational practice of asking a basic question: how to be 'at home' in a world that is beyond our reach"--
List of contents
Introduction: strategy as the basic question of organization?; Part I. Authenticity: 1. Strategy and the organization of authenticity in the polis; 2. Can the strategoi ever build a polis?; 3. Strategy in the lifeworld, and the problem with home; Part II. The Three Epochs of Strategy: Techn¿, Technology, Technogenesis: 4. Techn¿ - creating organizational forms from the earth; 5. Technology, machinery and giving over to the general in strategic practice; 6. Strategy as world picture; 7. Who or what is running strategy?; 8. The apparatus of Napoleon's forms of communication; 9. Strategy no longer thinks in terms of human beings; Part III. The Open: 10. Impoverished by strategy; 11. Reaching for open - strategy unbound.
About the author
Robin Holt is Professor of Strategy and Aesthetics and the University of Bristol Business School. He is the author of Judgment and Strategy (2018) and co-author of Strategy without Design, with Robert Chia (Cambridge, 2009). He was previously editor-in-chief of the journal Organization Studies.Mike Zundel is Professor in Organization Studies in the Strategy, International Business & Entrepreneurship Group, University of Liverpool Management School.
Summary
In challenging the world to show itself as a measured site of resources, opportunities, distinctions and goals, strategy leaves no pause for thought, it has become a small science of imposed patterns. This book rescues strategy from the boundless sway of technology and thoughtlessness.
Foreword
This book rescues strategy from the boundless sway of technology and thoughtlessness.
