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Visual Interactions with Strategy Tools: Producing Strategic Knowledge in Workshops

Paroutis, Sotirios, Franco, L. Alberto, Papadopoulos, Thanos (2015) Visual Interactions with Strategy Tools: Producing Strategic Knowledge in Workshops. British Journal of Management, 26 (S1). S48-S66. ISSN 1045-3172. E-ISSN 1467-8551. (doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12081) (KAR id:52865)

Abstract

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 conceptualize workshops as arenas where visual interaction with strategy tools takes 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 study contributes to theoretical elaborations of how actors visually interact with strategy tools, which offers extensions to the strategy-as-practice and visual organization literatures. © 2015 British Academy of Management.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/1467-8551.12081
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Uncontrolled keywords: management, strategy tools, visual interaction, sensemaking, middle managers, strategy
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Department of Analytics, Operations and Systems
Depositing User: Kimberley Attard-Owen
Date Deposited: 08 Dec 2015 16:42 UTC
Last Modified: 24 Apr 2023 12:57 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/52865 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Papadopoulos, Thanos.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6821-1136
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