Crafting strategy : embodied metaphors in practice /

"The rationalist approach to strategizing emphasizes analytical and convergent thinking. Without denying the importance of this approach, this book argues that strategists must learn to complement it with a more creative approach to strategizing that emphasizes synthetic and divergent ways of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heracleous, Loizos Th
Other Authors: Jacobs, Claus D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; Vignette A: BASF; 1. Strategizing out of the box; Vignette B: UNICEF; 2. Metaphor and embodied realism; 3. Analyzing embodied metaphors as an interpretive, hermeneutic endeavour; Vignette C: Voltigo (Fribourg); 4. Crafting strategy as a practice of embodied recursive enactment; 5. Play, analogical reasoning and dialogue in the crafting of strategy; Vignette D: Hephata; 6. Understanding organizations through embodied metaphors; 7. Sensemaking through embodied metaphors in organization development; Vignette E: Privatbank; 8. Strategy as a crafting practice; Vignette F: Worldvision New Zealand; 9. The process of strategizing through crafting embodied metaphors; Glossary; Index.