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Visual interactions with strategy tools: producing strategic knowledge in workshops

journal contribution
posted on 2015-02-11, 16:46 authored by Sotirios Paroutis, Luis Alberto FrancoLuis Alberto Franco, Thanos Papadopoulos
How do managers visually interact with strategy tools during workshops to produce knowledge about strategic issues? Building on the strategy-as-practice perspective and visual organization studies, we conceptualise workshops as arenas where visual interaction with strategy tools take place. Following this approach, we examine how a top management team creates a strategy tool during a workshop (using primarily video data). Our findings reveal three distinctive patterns of visual interactions: shift, inertia, and assembly. We also show how each of these patterns is enabled by the affordances of the tool used. Our findings contribute to theoretical elaborations of how actors visually interact with strategy tools, which offer extensions to strategy-as-practice and visual organization literatures.

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

British Journal of Management

Volume

26

Issue

Supplement S1

Pages

S48 - S66

Citation

PAROUTIS, S., FRANCO, L.A. and PAPADOPOULOS, T., 2015. Visual interactions with strategy tools: producing strategic knowledge in workshops. British Journal of Management, 26 (Supplement S1), pp.S48-S66.

Publisher

Wiley (2015 British Academy of Management)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015-01-15

Notes

This paper is closed access until 15th January 2017.

eISSN

1467-8551

Language

  • en