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Appleyard, M.M. and Chesbrough, H.W., 2017. The dynamics of open strategy: from adoption to reversion. Long Range Planning, 50(3), pp.310-321.
Jarzabkowski, P., Kavas, M. and Krull, E. (2021) ‘It’s Practice. But is it Strategy? Reinvigorating strategy-as-practice by rethinking consequentiality’, Organization Theory. doi: 10.1177/26317877211029665.
Kohtamäki, M, Whittington, R, Vaara, E & Rabetino, R. 2021. Making connections: harnessing the diversity of strategy-as-practice research. International Journal of Management Reviews. 1–23.
MacKay, B, Chia, R & Nair, AK. 2021. Strategy-in-Practices: A process philosophical approach to understanding strategy emergence and organizational outcomes. Human Relations. 74(9):1337–1369.
Mamburu, M.E., de Metz, N. and Davis, A., 2024. Exploring middle manager’s identity as strategists within a public sector organisation: a multi-level perspective. Journal of Strategy and Management.
Maritz, R. & du Toit, A. 2018. The practice turn within strategy: Competitive intelligence as integrating practice, South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 21(1): a2059.
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
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
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
Whittington, R., Vaara, E. & Rabetino, R. Making connections: Harnessing the diversity of strategy-as-practice research. International Journal of Management Reviews. 2021;1–23.
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