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Adobor, H. (2020), 'Open strategy: role of organizational democracy', Journal of Strategy and Management, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 310-331.
Alexander, P. A. (2020) ‘Methodological Guidance Paper: The Art and Science of Quality Systematic Reviews’, Review of Educational Research, 90(1), pp. 6–23. doi:10.3102/0034654319854352
Balogun, J., Huff, A.S. & Johnson, P. 2003. Three responses to the methodological challenges of studying strategizing. Journal of Management Studies. 40(1):197-224.
Brielmaier, C. and Friesl, M. (2021) ‘Pulled in all directions: Open strategy participation as an attention contest’, Strategic Organization. doi: 10.1177/14761270211034515.
Burgelman, R. A. et al. (2018) ‘Strategy processes and practices: Dialogues and intersections’, Strategic Management Journal (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 39(3), pp. 531–558. doi: 10.1002/smj.2741.
Cassell, C. et al. (2009) ‘Learning to be a Qualitative Management Researcher’, Management Learning, 40(5), pp. 513–533. doi: 10.1177/1350507609340811.
de Metz, N., Jansen van Rensburg, M. and Davis, A., 2023. Acting Strategically During Change: A Process and Dwelling World-view Approach. Journal of Change Management, 23(3): 250-268.
Janse van Rensburg, M., Davis, A. & Venter, P. 2014. Making strategy work: The role of the middle manager. Journal of Management & Organization. 20(2): 165-186.
Jarzabkowski, P., Kavas, M. & Krull, E. 2021. It’s Practice, But is it Strategy? Reinvigorating strategy-as-practice by rethinking consequentiality. Organization Theory. 2:1-13
Jarzabkowski, P. & Spee, A.P. 2009. Strategy-as-practice: a review and future directions for the field. International Journal of Management Reviews. 11(1):69-95.
Jarzabkowski, P., Balogun, J. & Seidl, D. 2007. Strategizing: the challenges of a practice perspective. Human Relations. 6(1):5-27.
Jarzabkowski, P, Seidl, D. & Balogun, J. 2022. From germination to propagation: two decades of Strategy-as-Practice research and potential future directions. [In Print] Human Relations.
Kearney, A., Harrington, D. and Kelloher, F. 2019. Strategizing in the micro firm: A ‘strategy as practice’ framework. Industry and Higher Education, 33(1): 6-17.
Ngwenya, A., Davis, A. and Ncube, D., 2023. The practical relevance of strategy education: Evidence from the lived experiences of business school alumni. Industry and Higher Education, 37(4): 457-472.
Golsorkhi, D., Rouleau, L., Seidl, D., & Vaara, E. 2015. Cambridge Handbook on Strategy as Practice. 2nd edition.
Whittington, R. 2019. Opening Strategy: Professional Strategists and Practice Change, 1960 to Today. Oxford:Oxford University Press.
Onwuegbuzie, A.J. & Leech, N.L. 2005. On becoming a pragmatic researcher: the importance of combining quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 8(5):375-387.
Prashantham, S. and Healey, M.P., 2022. Strategy as practice research: reflections on its rationale, approach, and contributions. Journal of Management Studies, 59(8): e1-e17.
Samson, S., Williamson, C. & Davis, A., 2022. Managerial Survival: Middle Manager Sense-Making during Organisational Change. International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, 11. https://doi.org/10.53615/2232-5697.11.315-327
Stadler, C. Hautz, J. & von den Eichen, S. F. 2020. Open Strategy: The Inclusion of Crowds in Making Strategies. NIM Marketing Intelligence Review. 12(1) 36-41.
Thakhathi, A., Le Roux, C. & Davis, A. 2019. Sustainability Leaders' Influencing Strategies for Institutionalising Organisational Change towards Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy-as-Practice Perspective. Journal of Change Management, 19(4): 246-265.
Vaara, E & Fritsch, L. 2021. Strategy as language and communication: Theoretical and methodological advances and avenues for the future in strategy process and practice research. Strategic Management Journal. (November, 14):1–12.
Vaara, E. & Whittington, R. 2012. Strategy-as-practice: taking social practices seriously. The Academy of Management Annals.
Van Niekerk, K & Janse van Rensburg, M. 2022. Middle managers; strategising practices to effect strategic change. Journal of Change Management DOI: 0.1080/14697017.2022.2040572
van Wyk, I., 2023. Strategic decision-making in small and medium enterprises in South Africa. The Southern African Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 15(1), p.684. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-sajesbm_v15_n1_a684
Vorwerk Marren, I., Davis, A & Williamson, CM. (2024) Strategizing for survival – enablers of South African not-for-profit organization sustainability, Cogent Business & Management, 11:1, https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2024.2323775
Whittington, R. 2006. Completing the practice turn in strategy research. Organization Studies. 27(5):613-634.
Williamson, C. 2016. 'Views from the nano edge': women on doctoral preparation programmes in selected African contexts. Studies in Higher Education. 41(5): 859-873.
Xaba, L., le Roux, C. & Davis, A., 2023. Migrating from disruption to consensus: Middle manager experiences with organisational change. Journal of Contemporary Management, 20(1), pp.376-403. https://doi.org/10.35683/jcman1028.201