A Hermeneutic Reading into "What Strategy Is": Ambiguous Means-End Relationship

Autor/inn/en	Bakir, Ali; Todorovic, Milan
Titel	A Hermeneutic Reading into "What Strategy Is": Ambiguous Means-End Relationship
Quelle	In: Qualitative Report, 15 (2010) 5, S.1037-1057 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-0147
Schlagwörter	Hermeneutics; Literature Appreciation; Reader Text Relationship; Learning Strategies; Organizations (Groups); Models; Adult Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hermeneutik; Literarische Wertung; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Analogiemodell; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung
Abstract	Given the underutilization of hermeneutic research in organizations and the recognition that we do not know what strategy is, we undertake a hermeneutic reading of authorial texts to develop a robust understanding of strategy. We enter into a self-reflexive dialogue with the text to accomplish a fusion of horizons where we hope to turn our prejudices into productive prejudices. In this dialogue, we utilize competing strategy paradigms within a framework that treats the means-end relationship and its underpinning rationality as central to our understanding. This study portrays strategy as a series of intended actions operating along the instrumental/objective--interpretive / subjective continuum, depending on the nature of the means-end relationship. We further contribute to knowledge by demonstrating how to apply hermeneutics to understand complex organizational concepts, and through the intendedness of strategy we emphasize management agency and dispense with the "emergent strategy" notion, common in the literature. (Contains 2 figures and 1 footnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10