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Neyland-Whittle2018
BibType ARTICLE
Key Neyland-Whittle2018
Author(s) Daniel Neyland, Andrea Whittle
Title Garfinkel on strategy: Using ethnomethodology to make sense of ‘‘rubbish strategy”
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Tag(s) EMCA, Garfinkel, Ethnomethology, Strategy
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Year 2018
Language English
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Journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting
Volume 53
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Pages 31-42
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2017.03.008
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Abstract

This paper has three aims. First, it presents what the term ethnomethodology means and explains some of its central concepts and tenets. Second, the paper illustrates an eth- nomethodological approach to studying strategy by drawing on a fieldwork study of the development of a waste management strategy in a UK Local Authority, conducted by the first author. Third, the distinctive approach that ethnomethodology takes to the study of social organization is presented in order to outline what it could offer to the understanding of strategic organization in particular. The paper concludes by discussing the insights that ethnomethodology can offer in the strategic management field, including existing applica- tions and potential future lines of enquiry, particularly in the field known as Strategy-as- Practice. The conclusion advocates a move away from rational analytic models, proclama- tions and prescriptive treatments of strategy towards studying the more mundane work that enables strategic action to take place, notably the production of accounts of various kinds. It is argued that through accounts, members produce the social facts that generate ‘strategies’ of various kinds. This necessitates studying fact production ‘in flight’. Strategic organization is thereby conceptualised as an ongoing achievement of member’s ethno- methods for producing it.

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