Stewart R. Clegg - Strategy: Theory and Practice

Stewart Cleggis Professor of Management and Research Director of the Centre for Organization and Management Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney Business School. For over forty years he has been extremely active in teaching and researching organizations and management from a sociological perspective, in both Europe and Australia.
His major research interests have always centered on power relations in organizations and in theory. He is the author of many books, including Strategy: Theory and Practice (2011), a further collaboration with Martin Kornberger, amongst others, as well as being the editor of a great many volumes, including the award-winning Handbook of Organization Studies (2006). He has published many articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Administrative Sciences Quarterly, Journal of Political Power, Human Relations, Organization and the Journal of Management Studies.
Stewart seeks to be the embodiment of the potential of the sociological imagination to illuminate social reality. To this end he has tried, with his co-authors, to make understanding management and organizations relevant, accessible and stripped of pretension. Jochen Schweitzerteaches Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and is the Director of the MBA Entrepreneurship at the UTS Business School. He is also Research Stream Leader for Strategy and Creativity at the Center for Management and Organisation Studies (CMOS) and Founder/Director of U.lab, a multidisciplinary innovation hub. Previously he has worked as a Design Thinking Coach, Management Consultant, Production-Planning Engineer and Cultural Program Coordinator. His research, teaching and consulting focuses on issues of strategy, collaboration, entrepreneurship and innovation with a special interest in design thinking, urban planning and open innovation. Andrea Whittleis Professor of Management at Newcastle University Business School and previously Head of the Strategy, Organization and Society Research Group. Before joining Newcastle University in 2013, Andrea held a Chair in Organization Studies at Cardiff University. Andrea started her academic career in Natural Science, then did a PhD in Sociology in the field of Science and Technology Studies and since then has taught Management in Business Schools. Andreas interest in strategy started without plan or design much like many strategies themselves emerge. While doing an ethnography of a group of management consultants for her doctoral research, she was fascinated by the social, political, material and discursive processes through which the group tried to shape the firms strategy agenda, albeit not always successfully. Since then, she has gone on to develop a keen interest in strategy as practice, applying organization theory and social theory to the study of strategizing processes in a range of contexts. Her more recent work has included longitudinal ethnographic research on a strategy project team in a Multinational Corporation and work on how top managers account for their strategic decisions following crises and scandals. Central to all her work is a concern for understanding how discourse and power are implicated in all forms of organization of which strategy is not an exception but an exemplar.