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Strategy practice teaching is dead: long live strategy practice teaching
Authors: Duncan Angwin, Innan Sasaki, Tatiana Mikhalkina, Martin Friesl, Ioannis Thanos, Kathryn Fahy
Conference name: Strategic Management Society Conference
Publishing place: Houston, USA
Publication year: 2017
Book title : Unconventional Strategies for Emerging Complexity and Intensifying Diversity
Web address : https://www.strategicmanagement.net/media/download/conferences/houston/overview/schedule/_leftColumn/program-book/file
The teaching of strategic management matters to Business Schools although its evolution from an open, engaged activity to one more narrowly focused on theory teaching is problematic. This theory-practice gap is harmful and calls into question our relevance to students. This paper contends that a practice perspective can help to address these concerns. Specifically the main criticisms of strategic management teaching today are listed (from a literature review available from the authors) and key ontological dimensions from a practice perspective are identified that may help address them. These dimensions are then used to form a typology of four ways in which a practice perspective may serve to engage students better in important everyday strategizing. Each practice type is illustrated by a short vignette.