Strategy‐as‐practice: A review and future directions for the field

This review maps and critically evaluates the rapidly growing body of research in the strategy‐as‐practice field. Following an introduction on the emergence and foundations of strategy‐as‐practice, the review is structured in three main parts, based on the terminology, issues and research agendas outlined in the field. First, the paper examines the concepts of practitioners and praxis. A typology of nine possible domains for strategy‐as‐practice research is developed, based on the way that different studies conceptualize the strategy practitioner and the level of strategy praxis that they aim to explain. Second, the paper reviews the concept of practices, which has been adopted widely but inconsistently within…