Abstracts
Résumé
Le travail stratégique — ou strategizing — est difficile à saisir, en particulier lorsque l’on en cherche les manifestations en dehors des réunions de dirigeants explicitement organisées à cet effet. Dans ce papier, nous nous demandons si le concept d’épisode stratégique (Hendry et Seidl, 2003), une des unités d’analyse proposée pour résoudre cette difficulté, permet effectivement l’étude d’une grande variété de manifestations du strategizing. Pour y répondre, nous nous appuyons sur une revue systématique de la littérature et dégageons des pistes de recherche afin que ce concept puisse réaliser son plein potentiel. Les implications de ce papier visent à aider les chercheurs à mieux saisir le strategizing dans toutes ses manifestations.
Mots-clés :
- Épisode stratégique,
- strategy-as-practice,
- travail stratégique,
- strategizing,
- processus
Abstract
Strategic work — strategizing — is difficult to seize, in particular when it comes to its occurrences outside of executives’ meetings deliberately organized for this purpose. In this paper, we explore the ability of a specific unit of analysis, the strategic episode (Hendry and Seidl, 2003), to ease this challenge and to allow for the study of a wide range of strategizing occurrences. Based on a systematic literature review, we suggest several research paths in order for this concept to achieve its full potential. In doing so, this paper aims at helping researchers to better seize all strategizing occurrences, notably beyond its formal exercise.
Keywords:
- Strategic episodes,
- strategy-as-practice,
- strategizing,
- process
Resumen
El trabajo estratégico — el desarrollo de estrategias — es difícil de aprovechar, en particular cuando tiene lugar en escenarios distintos de las reuniones ejecutivas organizadas con este propósito. En este artículo, exploramos la capacidad de una unidad específica de análisis, el episodio estratégico (Hendry y Seidl, 2003), para superar este reto y permitir el estudio de una amplia gama de situaciones estratégicas. En base a una revisión sistemática de la literatura, sugerimos varias vías de investigación para que este concepto alcance su máximo potencial. De esta manera, este artículo pretende ayudar a los investigadores a aprovechar mejor todas las situaciones de desarrollo de estrategias, más allá de su práctica meramente formal.
Palabras clave:
- Episodios estratégicos,
- estrategia como práctica,
- desarrollo de estrategias,
- proceso
Appendices
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