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According to Wikipedia, Ann Langley is a British-Canadian economist. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Strategic Management Research in a Pluralistic Environment at HEC Montréal. She is a Distinguished Research Environment Professor at Warwick Business School and an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Montreal, and the University of Gothenburg. Langley is interested in strategy, health management and research methodology.

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Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data (1999) (5308)
Process studies of change in organization and management : unveiling temporality, activity, and flow (2013) (1465)
The Dynamics of Collective Leadership and Strategic Change in Pluralistic Organizations (2001) (826)
Opening up Decision Making: The View from the Black Stool (1995) (553)
Finding Theory–Method Fit: A Comparison of Three Qualitative Approaches to Theory Building (2017) (491)
Strategizing in pluralistic contexts: Rethinking theoretical frames (2007) (482)
Strategy as Practice: Research Directions and Resources (2007) (474)
Leadership in the Plural (2012) (465)
Explaining Diffusion Patterns for Complex Health Care Innovations (2002) (407)
Templates and Turns in Qualitative Studies of Strategy and Management (2011) (401)
Strategy as Practice and the Narrative Turn (2011) (335)
Process thinking in strategic organization (2007) (310)
Leadership and Strategic Change under Ambiguity (1996) (254)
Introducing perspectives on process organization studies (2010) (250)
In search of rationality: the purposes behind the use of formal analysis in organizations. (1989) (240)
The SAGE handbook of process organization studies (2016) (239)
Approaching the Conceptual Leap in Qualitative Research (2013) (226)
Governance, Power, and Mandated Collaboration in an Interorganizational Network (2007) (214)
Studying processes in and around organizations. (2009) (194)
The Corruption of Managerial Techniques by Organizations (2002) (193)
A PROCESS STUDY OF NEW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION IN SMALLER MANUFACTURING FIRMS (1994) (184)
Studying processes in and around networks (2012) (180)
Escalating Indecision: Between Reification and Strategic Ambiguity (2011) (180)
The Logic of Institutional Logics (2013) (174)
The Practice of Leadership in the Messy World of Organizations (2010) (164)
Integration mechanisms and R&D project performance☆ (2000) (160)
The roles of formal strategic planning (1988) (156)
Between 'Paralysis by Analysis' and 'Extinction by Instinct' (1995) (151)
A Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Health Care Organizations' Performance (1998) (148)
The Double Edge of Ambiguity in Strategic Planning (2014) (125)
Strategy Formation in the University Setting (2017) (124)
Boundary Work among Groups, Occupations, and Organizations: From Cartography to Process (2019) (116)
The power of numbers in strategizing (2006) (115)
The Interplay of Reflective and Experimental Spaces in Interrupting and Reorienting Routine Dynamics (2016) (105)
Having your cake and eating it too: discourses of transcendence and their role in organizational change dynamics (2011) (96)
What Makes a Process Theoretical Contribution? (2020) (91)
The struggle to redefine boundaries in health care systems (1999) (86)
Beyond evidence: the micropolitics of improvement (2011) (85)
Agency at the Managerial Interface: Public Sector Reform as Institutional Work (2016) (83)
Perspectives on doing case study research in organizations (2006) (83)
Becoming A Leader In A Complex Organization (2000) (79)
Relating microprocesses to macro‐outcomes in qualitative strategy process and practice research (2018) (78)
Contestation about Collaboration: Discursive Boundary Work among Professions (2016) (78)
Acquisition Strategy and Dominant Logic in an Engineering Firm (1999) (78)
Patterns in the Use of Formal Analysis in Strategic Decisions (1990) (77)
Contracting for Change: Contracts in Health, Social Care, and Other Local Government Services (1997) (71)
Constructing Identity in and around Organizations (2012) (64)
Strategic responses to institutional complexity (2016) (63)
Change Management Choices and Trajectories in a Multidivisional Firm (2010) (61)
Leadership as boundary work in healthcare teams (2013) (61)
Rethinking Leadership in Public Organizations (2007) (59)
The reciprocal dynamics of organizing and sense-making in the implementation of major public-sector reforms (2009) (54)
Institutional Work and the Notion of Test (2012) (53)
Process studies of change in organization and management (2009) (52)
Rethinking the concept of performance in strategy research: towards a performativity perspective (2013) (52)
Introduction: Process Thinking, Process Theorizing and Process Researching (2016) (49)
Invoking Alphonse: The founder figure as a historical resource for organizational identity work (2018) (47)
Formal analysis and strategic decision making (1991) (43)
The Emergence of Novelty in Organizations (2015) (43)
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES AND POLITICAL PROCESSES IN A PUBLIC SYSTEM: LESSONS FROM QUEBEC (2004) (43)
The strategic plan as a genre (2012) (42)
Health promotion in the workplace. (1988) (39)
Identity Struggles in Merging Organizations (2012) (39)
Being Where? Navigating the Involvement Paradox in Qualitative Research Accounts (2019) (39)
EXPLORING THE STRATEGY‐TECHNOLOGY CONNECTION IN SMALL MANUFACTURING FIRMS (2009) (38)
Researching OrganizationalConcepts Processually: The Case of Identity (2018) (35)
Formal strategy in public hospitals. (1991) (33)
Distributing leadership across people and objects in a collaborative research project (2016) (29)
Rhetorics of Efficiency, Fashion and Politics (2004) (28)
Skillful performance : enacting capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise in organizations (2017) (28)
Narratives and Processuality (2016) (27)
The Interplay of Inter- and Intraprofessional Boundary Work in Multidisciplinary Teams (2020) (27)
Bridging competing demands through co-leadership? Potential and limitations (2020) (27)
The First Organization Studies Summer Workshop: 'Theorizing Process in Organizational Research' (2004) (25)
Negotiating the Moral Aspects of Purpose in Single and Cross-Sectoral Collaborations (2017) (25)
Opening Up Perspectives on Plural Leadership (2012) (25)
The struggle to implement teaching‐hospital mergers (1999) (25)
Exploring the strategy-identity nexus (2020) (25)
Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice: The challenge of developing cumulative knowledge about Strategy as Practice (2010) (24)
The values underlying team decision-making in work rehabilitation for musculoskeletal disorders (2005) (23)
Some Extensions of Domain Criteria in Decision Making under Uncertainty (1990) (23)
Managing and Mobilizing Microdynamics to Achieve Behavioral Integration in Top Management Teams (2016) (21)
Language and Communication at Work: Discourse, Narrativity, and Organizing (2014) (21)
Defining the ‘public’ in a public healthcare system (2004) (21)
4. An Organizational Science Perspective on Information, Knowledge, Evidence, and Organizational Decision-Making (2004) (20)
Making Interviews Meaningful (2020) (19)
Performing Process Research (2019) (19)
Organizational change and dialectic processes (2011) (18)
The Role of the Academic Librarian (2003) (17)
Studying Projects Processually (2021) (17)
Linking Rationality, Politics, and Routines in Organizational Decision Making (2008) (16)
The Role and Impact of Formal Strategic Planning in Public Hospitals (1995) (16)
Longitudinal Research and Analysis (2012) (15)
Critical junctures in strategic planning: Understanding failure to enable success (2014) (14)
Leadership and Professionals: Multiple Manifestations of Influence in Professional Service Firms (2015) (14)
Constructing and Sustaining Counter-Institutional Identities (2020) (14)
The social construction of strategic coherence: Practices of enabling leadership (2019) (14)
Navigating the tensions of quality in qualitative research (2021) (13)
Managing Across Boundaries in Health Care: The Forces for Change and Inertia (2003) (13)
Public Services and Electronic Resources: Perspectives from the Science and Engineering Libraries at Duke University. (2002) (10)
What Is “This” a Case of? Generative Theorizing for Disruptive Times (2021) (10)
Time, Temporality, and History in Process Organization Studies (2020) (10)
Introduction : How does novelty emerge? (2015) (10)
Building Bridges: Collaboration Within and Beyond the Academic Library (2006) (10)
A Curated Debate: On Using “Templates” in Qualitative Research (2022) (10)
New perspectives on organizational change and learning (2005) (10)
Modeling the Evaluation Process in a Public Controversy (2019) (9)
Strategic Planning as Practice (2015) (9)
Resource Constraints and Strategic Change in a Public Hospital System (1997) (9)
Evidence-based decision making in health care settings: from theory to practice. (2011) (9)
Temporal Work: The Strategic Organization of Time (2022) (8)
Process research in healthcare: towards three-dimensional learning (2003) (8)
An abductive approach to investigating trust development in strategic alliances (2015) (8)
Strategy as Practice: Introducing the Strategy as Practice perspective (2007) (8)
Saying What You Do and Doing What You Say: The Performative Dynamics of Lean Management Theory (2013) (8)
Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life (2018) (8)
OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians (2018) (7)
Leadership and Professionals (2015) (7)
Applying Quality Principles in Business Schools: Potential and Limitations (2009) (7)
Commercializing Academic Knowledge in a Business School: Orders of Worth and Value Assemblages (2017) (7)
So!apbox Forum: The business model: A valuable concept for strategic organization? (2013) (6)
Subject Liaisons in Academic Libraries: An Open Access Data Set from 2015 (2017) (6)
Creating Learning Opportunities in Open Education: An Exploration of the Intersections of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication (2018) (6)
Strategy as Practice: Doing research on doing strategy (2007) (6)
Conclusion. Faut-il changer nos façons de changer? (2002) (6)
Strategy as Practice: References (2007) (6)
Co-leadership: Contexts, Congurations and Conditions (2016) (5)
Highlighting the Plural: Leading Amidst Romance(s) (2021) (5)
Introduction: Institutions and Organizations (2019) (5)
LA FORMATION DES STRATÉGIES DANS LES ORGANISATIONS PLURALISTES: VERS DE NOUVELLES AVENUES THÉORIQUES 1 (2004) (5)
Chapter 9 Visual Artefacts as Tools for Analysis and Theorizing (2019) (4)
4 – Getting started (2006) (4)
Organizational Identity Work in an Emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Network (2015) (4)
From Start-Up to Adolescence: University of Oklahoma’s OER Efforts (2018) (4)
Creating and Sustaining Stakeholder Emotional Resonance with Organizational Identity in Social Mission-Driven Organizations (2021) (3)
The Power of the Platform: Place and Employee Responses to Organizational Change (2020) (3)
Process Research Methods: A Conversation among Leading Scholars* (2020) (3)
Communicative Perspectives on Strategic Organization (2021) (3)
Language and Communication at Work (2014) (3)
Theory-Method Packages: A Comparison of Three Qualitative Approaches to Theory Building (2016) (2)
Anatomie d'un outil de gestion : la planification stratégique dans les organisations publiques de santé (1992) (2)
Professionals as Strategists? Channelling and Organizing Distributed Strategizing (2013) (2)
Leadership as Boundary Management in Interprofessional Health Care Teams (2012) (2)
Interinstitutional Collaborations to Forge Intracampus Connections: A Case Study from the Duke Endowment Libraries (2018) (2)
Using questionnaires in qualitative interviews (2004) (2)
Language and Communication at Work Discourse, Narrativity, and Organizing Introducing the Fourth Volume of "Perspectives on Process Organization Studies" (2014) (2)
Organizational technology appropriation as actively accomplished "place-making" (2015) (2)
Beyond the Hero–Leader (2016) (2)
Assimilation, Integration or Inclusion? A Dialectical Perspective on the Organizational Socialization of Migrants (2021) (2)
Plural leadership in healthcare organizations (2016) (2)
Blind Alleys and Untold Stories in Qualitative Research (2017) (2)
Legitimacy Work in Organizations: Securing the Existence of a Novel Change Agency Unit (2020) (2)
What Do We Know About Hospital Mergers ? A selected annotated bibliography (2000) (2)
A Practical Writing Guide for Academic Librarians (2010) (2)
Building Bridges (2006) (2)
Seeking Alternatives to High-Cost Textbooks: Six Years of The Open Education Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2018) (2)
La diffusion d'une innovation portant les germes de son plafonnement: la réutilisation des hémodialyseurs au Québec (2001) (2)
5. Le rôle de dirigeant dans le pilotage de restructuration hospitalière (2005) (2)
Laying the groundwork: using relational databases for serials review decisions (1998) (2)
"Leading Professionals: Plurality, Process, and Power" (2016) (2)
Strategy as Practice: Reflections (2007) (1)
I Kept House in a Jungle (2007) (1)
Brandon Silk Mill and Child Labour During the Industrial Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Warwickshire (2003) (1)
Advocacy in OER: A Statewide Strategy for Building a Sustainable Library Effort (2018) (1)
Legislative outlook: reflections and upcoming highlights. (1998) (1)
Reforming the great reformer. How congress, and states, may change managed care. (1997) (1)
What Structures Health Care Reforms? A Comparative Analysis of British and Canadian Experiences (2017) (1)
Shifting logics of legitimation in the diffusion of complex innovations (2007) (1)
OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians | Editor's Cut (2018) (1)
How Research Libraries Support the Research Process: From Idea To Publishing (2019) (1)
Open University Staff Development Materials for Tutors of Open Learning. (1999) (1)
What's the Next Chapter for Strategy as Narrative? (2017) (1)
Strategy as Practice : Research Models and Resources (2007) (1)
So!apbox Forum: Configurations Redux (2018) (1)
A Practical Writing Guide for Academic Librarians: Keeping It Short and Sweet (2010) (1)
Expanding Perspectives on the Poverty Trap for Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania: The Role of Rural Input Supply Chains (2022) (1)
Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services -- Case Study Four: The Big Collection Assessment Project -- The Bane of a Selector's Existence, or a Beautiful Zen Experience? (2013) (1)
Strategy and Identities in Organizations (2020) (1)
Research methodology for strategy as practice (2014) (1)
Testing, Contesting and Legitimizing Technology Diffusion in Regulated Environments (2012) (1)
From Textbook Affordability to Transformative Pedagogy: Growing an OER Community (2018) (1)
Chronique sur le métier de chercheur (2013) (1)
Tenth anniversary So!apbox special issue: Editorial introduction (2012) (1)
L'écriture en équipe : une double perspective (2013) (1)
Professionals as Strategists (2013) (1)
Jeux et enjeux dans l'implantation du Programme québécois de dépistage du cancer du sein : l'équipée de deux régions (2008) (0)
3. Régionaliser pour restructurer au Québec (2005) (0)
Library-Supported Adoption and Creation Programs (2018) (0)
Designing Organizations to 'Win' in Pluralistic Settings (2017) (0)
Learning Our Limits: The Science Libraries at Duke University Retreat to Respond to Our Changing Environment (1999) (0)
2020 News and Announcements from the Co-editors (2018) (0)
Book Review (1999) (0)
4 – Getting and keeping a job (2010) (0)
2018 News and Announcements from the Coeditors (2018) (0)
The Accidental Methodologist: Reflections on a Serendipitous Career (2021) (0)
Book Review (2000) (0)
[Governance and health: the rise of the managerialism in public sector reform]. (2010) (0)
Boundary Work in Health Care Teams: Responding to Shifting Demands (2016) (0)
Book reviews (2006) (0)
Book Review: Constructing Organizational Life: How Social-Symbolic Work Shapes Selves, Organizations, and Institutions (2020) (0)
Editorial (2013) (0)
Book Review (2004) (0)
5 – Evaluation: why and how (2006) (0)
6 – Peer collaboration (2006) (0)
Constructing and Sustaining Counter-institutional Identities Accepted for Publication at Academy of Management Journal (2019) (0)
Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services -- Case Study Eight: The Search Committee -- So Many Resumes, How do I do My Part? (2013) (0)
1 – Why collaborate? (2006) (0)
Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services -- Case Study One: I am not the Expert! Or, How to Approach Doing Collection Development in a Subject in Which You Have No Expertise (2013) (0)
9 – Scholarly work and teaching (2010) (0)
Organization Studies (2010) (0)
The Role of Emotions in Sensemaking (2019) (0)
Supporting distance learners : a tutors guide. Published in 1998 by the Soth African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) (1999) (0)
Erratum: Going beyond clinical care to reduce health care spending: Findings from the J-CHiP community-based population health management program evaluation (Medical Care (2018) 56 (603-609) DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000934) (2018) (0)
Entrapment: The Constraining Nature of CEO Narratives (2018) (0)
Managing Interlinked Paradoxes Through Boundary Work (2021) (0)
Case Studies in Collections and Technical Services -- Case Study Three: The Ticking Clock of Tenure: The Case of the First Article (2013) (0)
When Everything Interacts with Everything Else: Intervening in Messes (2022) (0)
Editorial: movin’ on up (2010) (0)
Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services -- Case Study Seven: A New Employee -- What Do I Do? (2013) (0)
2 – Style: short and sweet (2010) (0)
Journals Online News: Dispersing Collection Management Information on the World Wide Web. (1996) (0)
7 – Public services and collections (2010) (0)
Symposium: Challenging Traditions in Strategy: Strategizing and Strategy as Practice – a Micro Perspective (2004) (0)
Managing a Strategic Paradox across Organizational Boundaries (2019) (0)
SO! What’s New in 2014? (2014) (0)
What can Organisation and Management Theory Learn from the Economies of Worth Framework (2012) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Strategy as Practice: Preface (2007) (0)
Organization Studies (2010) (0)
Struggles for Meaning and Struggles for Control: The Diffusion of Bandwagon Technology in Two Institutional Environments (2009) (0)
10 – More resources for writing (2010) (0)
Multilevel Identity Work under Institutional Tensions (2015) (0)
Strategize to Organize or Organize to Strategize? Structuration and Sensemaking in Newly Formed Organizations 1 (2008) (0)
So you want to have a library retreat?: Planning, facilitating, and outcomes (2014) (0)
Theorizing Process Research: Perspectives in Conversation (2018) (0)
Overcoming the Poverty Trap for Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania (2021) (0)
2 – Time management (2003) (0)
5 – Meetings and reports (2010) (0)
Strategy as Practice: Illustrative papers (2007) (0)
The role of written texts in collaborative boundary work: a dynamic sociomaterial perspective (2021) (0)
SO! Far, SO! Good: Strategic Organization at 20 (2022) (0)
How Health Care Teams Manage Shared Negative Emotions During Collective Sensemaking (2019) (0)
Books received (2014) (0)
Books received (2012) (0)
2 – Building foundations for collaboration (2006) (0)
Understanding Micro-Macro Connections in Organization Theory: The Value of Healthcare Settings? (2020) (0)
The 2012 Douglas McGregor Memorial Award (2013) (0)
9 – External collaboration (2006) (0)
7 – Librarian and faculty collaboration (2006) (0)
Non Profit Organisations versus the Real World - Community Redevelopment and Transportation Partners in Crime (2001) (0)
STUDIES OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT : UNVEILING TEMPORALITY , ACTIVITY , AND ELOW (2013) (0)
Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services -- Case Study Two: The Case of the Temperamental Bibliographer. (2013) (0)
Public service in the electronic world (2003) (0)
Sensemaking, Simplexity, and MindfulnessTimothy Vogus and Ian Colville (2016) (0)
Leadership in the Plural: Insights from Professional Organizations (2012) (0)
LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGIC CHANGE UNDER AMBIGUITY. (1994) (0)
Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services -- Case Study Six: Run with the Meeting (2013) (0)
So!apbox Forum: The Strategic Organization of Strategic Management Scholarship (2016) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
8 – Online and presenting data (2010) (0)
Organizational Ghosts: How Historic Leaders Live on Beyond the Grave (2019) (0)
Responding to Competing Demands: Exploring Relations of Both/And and Either/Or Responses to Paradox (2021) (0)
The Case for OER (2018) (0)
Creating the IR Culture (2015) (0)
When Everyone and No One is a Leader: Constructing individual leadership identities while sustaining an organizational narrative of collective leadership (2022) (0)
Subject Liaisons in Academic Libraries Data.csv (2016) (0)
Editorial: Meet the new boss(es) (2012) (0)
Interpersonal Dynamics in Strategic Leadership: Five Perspectives (2017) (0)
Engaging students in aspects of Nottingham's identity and development: co-creating products and artefacts for the National Caribbean Heritage Museum at NTU Global Week (2017) (0)
9 – Moving up (2003) (0)
Strategy as Practice: Authors' biographies (2007) (0)
8 – Internal collaboration (2006) (0)
Authors' Response to Commentaries (1998) (0)
Perspectives on Replication in Qualitative Research (2020) (0)
Ghosts ! Deceased Founders as Paradoxical Figures of Continuity and Change (2018) (0)
Strategic planning: a practice perspective (2014) (0)
Book Review: Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures (2021) (0)
Course Material Decisions and Factors: Unpacking the Opaque Box (2018) (0)
Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services -- Case Study Five: In Presentations, Demographics are Key (2013) (0)
Truth claims for practiceoriented research: A 'Mangle of Practice' approach (2015) (0)
Integration mechanisms and R & D project performance q (2015) (0)
Intentional Routine Change: The Interplay of Reflective and Experimental Spaces (2013) (0)
3 – Technology tools for collaborations (2006) (0)
CHANGING A CULTURE. INTEGRATED GOVERNMENT FUNDING - A BEGINNING (1998) (0)
Public COAPI Toolkit of Open Access Policy Resources (2016) (0)
Making the Connections: The Role of Professional Development in Advocating for OER (2018) (0)
Structure et processus dans une « Agence de développement de réseaux locaux de services de santé et de services sociaux » [Document électronique] : des problèmes et un diagnostic? (2005) (0)
We Came, We Saw, We Collaborated (2006) (0)
Commentary: Paradox as Irony: Inspirations from Jazz, Linguistics, Mathematics, Poetry and Other Stories (2021) (0)
Organisation Studies (2010) (0)
Politics, Rationality and Routines in Organizational Decision Making (2008) (0)
Strategy as Practice: Practical theories (2007) (0)
More SO! in 2015 (2015) (0)
Negotiating the Moral Aspects of Purpose in Single and Cross-Sectoral Collaborations (2015) (0)
Co-creating Impactful Qualitative Change Research: A Dialogue Between Authors and Editors (2018) (0)
Collection development in an electronic world (2003) (0)
2023 News and announcements from the co-editors (2023) (0)
Lorsque les médecins deviennent gestionnaires (2014) (0)
Introduction. Gestion... et santé (2002) (0)
Ces fantômes qui rôdent en entreprise (2020) (0)
Structure et processus dans une Agence de développement de réseaux locaux de services de santé et de services sociaux: des problèmes et un diagnostic? (2005) (0)

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