Professor Eero Vaara
Wednesday 28 April 2010, 13:30
Executive Suite
Strategy as authoring: A critical discursive analysis of influence and agency in strategic planning meetings
Little is known of the conversations through which strategic plans are created in organizations. This study develops an empirically validated model that elucidates the micro-level discursive practices through which strategic plans are crafted, authority is constructed, and influence exercised in strategic planning meetings. We report findings from an ethnographic study of a full strategic planning cycle in a Nordic City organization. The findings highlight the importance of authority construction (participation rights and knowledge) and rhetorical tactics (definition, instrumental rationalization, emotional argumentation, ontology, cosmology, narrativization, and alignment), but also underscore that prevailing discourses and autopoiesis had power over actors.
Tea & Coffee provided.
All staff and doctoral students welcome.
For further info
email Kathryn Fahy at k.fahy@lancaster.ac.uk.For catering purposes please confirm attendance with Fran Riley at f.riley@lancaster.ac.uk. Details and abstracts for this and forthcoming seminars will be posted once confirmed at http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/events/strategy/.
