Richard Whittington

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Whittington is an academic in the area of Corporate Strategy. Currently, he is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. Whittington has been influential in the Strategy-as-Practice approach, a more sociological and less managerial approach to the study of business and corporate strategy. He was previously an Associate Editor at the Strategic Management Journal.

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Exploring Corporate Strategy (1988) (4602)
Completing the Practice Turn in Strategy Research (2006) (1680)
Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases (1989) (1225)
Micro Strategy and Strategizing: Towards an Activity‐Based View (2003) (1110)
What Is Strategy and Does It Matter (1998) (968)
Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously (2012) (783)
Strategy as Practice (1996) (708)
PUTTING GIDDENS INTO ACTION: SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND MANAGERIAL AGENCY (1992) (625)
The Work of Strategizing and Organizing: For a Practice Perspective (2003) (603)
National Patient Safety Goals. (2006) (579)
The Handbook of Strategy and Management (2001) (492)
Strategy as Practice: Research Directions and Resources (2007) (474)
Change and Complementarities in the New Competitive Landscape: A European Panel Study (1999) (470)
Strategy Practice and Strategy Process: Family Differences and the Sociological Eye (2007) (393)
Opening Strategy: Evolution of a Precarious Profession (2011) (329)
The Role of Strategy Workshops in Strategy Development Processes : Formality, Communication, Co-ordination and Inclusion (2006) (269)
Enlarging the Strategy-as-Practice Research Agenda: Towards Taller and Flatter Ontologies (2014) (240)
Practices of Strategising/Organising: Broadening Strategy Work and Skills (2006) (203)
Strategy after modernism: recovering practice (2004) (200)
The European Corporation: Strategy, Structure, and Social Science (2001) (200)
ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE AND THEORIES OF STRATEGIC CHOICE (1988) (199)
Open Strategy: Dimensions, Dilemmas, Dynamics (2017) (196)
Innovative Forms of Organizing (2003) (182)
Reconfiguration, restructuring and firm performance: Dynamic capabilities and environmental dynamism (2017) (167)
Editorial Essay: The Tumult over Transparency: Decoupling Transparency from Replication in Establishing Trustworthy Qualitative Research* (2019) (162)
Strategy processes and practices: Dialogues and intersections (2018) (161)
Strategic Management: The Strengths and Limitations of a Field (2001) (157)
Information Systems Strategy and Strategy-as-Practice: A joint agenda (2014) (148)
Taking Strategy Seriously (2003) (142)
A Strategy-as-Practice Approach to Strategy Research and Education (2008) (140)
Giddens, structuration theory and strategy as practice (2010) (136)
On the risk of studying practices in isolation: Linking what, who, and how in strategy research (2016) (131)
The practice turn in organization research: Towards a disciplined transdisciplinarity (2011) (125)
Fundamentals of Strategy (2008) (123)
Fragmentation Strategies and the Rise of Small Units: Cases from the North West (1987) (117)
Agency in national innovation systems: Institutional entrepreneurship and the professionalization of Taiwanese IT (2011) (115)
Innovative forms of organizing : international perspectives (2003) (110)
Diversification in context: a cross-national and cross-temporal extension (2003) (110)
Exploring Strategy: Text and Cases (2017) (108)
Exploring Strategy: Text & Cases (2011) (99)
Corporate Restructuring and New Forms of Organising: Evidence from Europe (1999) (96)
The Crafts of Strategy: Special Issue Introduction by the Guest Editors (2008) (94)
Towards a Practice-Driven Institutionalism (2017) (89)
Professional Ideology and Marketing Implementation (1992) (88)
Hard to disagree, mostly (2008) (85)
Cheap talk? Strategy presentations as a form of chief executive officer impression management (2016) (79)
The New Marketing Myopia: Critical Perspectives on Theory and Research in Marketing (1994) (78)
The European Corporation (2002) (73)
MARKET‐DRIVEN CHANGE IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: PROBLEMS AND PROCESSES (1994) (69)
Regional bias in new firm formation in the UK (1984) (67)
Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text Only (1998) (65)
Strategy, Structure and `Systemness': National Institutions and Corporate Change in France, Germany and the UK, 1950-1993 (1999) (64)
Micro-Strategy and Strategising (2004) (64)
Corporate Strategies in Recession and Recovery : Social Structure and Strategic Choice (1989) (62)
Chandlerism in Post-war Europe: Strategic and Structural Change in France, Germany and the UK, 1950-1993 (1999) (60)
Exploring Corporate Strategy with Companion Website Student Access Card (2008) (59)
Strategies and Institutions: A Pluralistic Account of Strategies in the Taiwanese Computer Industry (1997) (56)
Learning More from Failure: Practice and Process (2006) (54)
Corporate Structure: from Policy to Practice (2001) (51)
The Challenge of Organizing/Strategizing (2003) (50)
Off to Plan or Out to Lunch? Relationships between Design Characteristics and Outcomes of Strategy Workshops (2015) (45)
The Massification of Strategy (2015) (43)
Conclusion: Doing more in Strategy Research (2001) (43)
Sociological Pluralism, Institutions and Managerial Agency (1994) (39)
Strategic Planners in More Turbulent Times: The Changing Job Characteristics of Strategy Professionals, 1960–2003 (2017) (38)
Big Strategy/Small Strategy (2012) (37)
Alfred Chandler, Founder of Strategy: Lost Tradition and Renewed Inspiration (2008) (37)
Economics, Politics and Nations: Resistance to the Multidivisional Form in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, 1983-1993 (2004) (37)
Changing control strategies in industrial R&D (1991) (33)
Independence and Objectivity: A Framework for Internal Auditors (2001) (32)
Exploring Strategy Text & Cases, 10th edition (2013) (32)
Recession Strategies and Top Management Change (1991) (32)
Opening Strategy (2019) (29)
Change Escalation Processes and Complex Adaptive Systems: From Incremental Reconfigurations to Discontinuous Restructuring (2015) (28)
Directions for a Troubled Discipline (2008) (28)
Marketing Disequilibrium: on Redress and Restoration (1999) (26)
Practices of Organising: Inside and Outside the Processes of Change (2005) (24)
Beyond or Behind the M-Form? The Structures of European Business (1997) (23)
Euro-elites: top British, French and German managers in the 1980s and 1990s (1999) (23)
If you aren’t talking about practices, don’t call it a practice-based view: Rejoinder to Bromiley and Rau in Strategic Organization (2016) (21)
Complementarities in Action: Organizational Change and Performance in BP and Unilever 1985-2002 (2003) (20)
Becoming a strategist: The roles of strategy discourse and ontological security in managerial identity work (2020) (19)
Exploring strategy: Text & cases (10th ed. (2013) (19)
Organising Organising: the Practice inside the Process (2005) (18)
Making connections: Harnessing the diversity of strategy‐as‐practice research (2021) (17)
Chandlerism in Post-War Europe: Strategic and Structural Change in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, 1950-1993 (1999) (15)
People Management Dualities (2003) (14)
Social Structures and Resistance to Strategic Change: British Manufacturers in the 1980s1 (1990) (14)
How Crisis Reveals the Structures of Practices (2020) (13)
For Boundedness in the Study of Comparative and International Business: The Case of the Diversified Multidivisional Corporation (2002) (13)
Strategic Disclosure: Strategy as A Form of Reputation Management (2012) (13)
The role and importance of strategy workshops: findings of a UK survey (2005) (13)
Implementing marketing in NHS hospitals (1994) (13)
The Grand Challenge of Corporate Control: Opening strategy to the normative pressures of networked professionals (2020) (12)
Large Firm Strategies and the Rise of Small Units (1986) (11)
Strategy as Practice, Process, and Institution: Turning Towards Activity (2016) (11)
Response to Kay: 'Chandlerism in post-war Europe: strategic and structural change in France, Germany and the United Kingdom 1950-1993: a comment' (2002) (10)
Strategy Consultants (2019) (10)
The Crafts of Strategy: Introduction to Themed Issue (2008) (10)
Micro-Strategy and Strategizing: Implications for Strategy Process Research (2005) (9)
Reorganisation Projects and Five Uncertainties (2006) (9)
Defining Open Strategy: Dimensions, Practices, Impacts, and Perspectives (2019) (9)
New Notions of Organizational Fit (2000) (9)
Greatness Takes Practice: On Practice Theory’s Relevance to “Great Strategy” (2018) (9)
Introduction: Comparative perspectives on the managerial revolution (2007) (8)
Putting the Marketing into R&D (1992) (8)
National Institutions and Corporate Change: Strategy, Structure and “Systemness” in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, 1950-1993 (1999) (8)
Strategy as Practice: Introducing the Strategy as Practice perspective (2007) (8)
Micro-Strategy and Strategising: Introduction to the Special Issue (2003) (7)
Making Strategy (2019) (7)
Meta-analysis of Gender Performance Gaps in Undergraduate Natural Science Courses (2021) (7)
THE PRACTICE OF ORGANISING: NEGOTIATING THE ROUTINISATION AND STANDARDISATION TRAPS. (2004) (7)
Strategy as Practice: References (2007) (6)
Managing through Variety: the European Style (2003) (6)
Social Structures and Strategic Leadership (1994) (6)
More SSOP: Commentary on the special issue (2011) (6)
Strategy as Practice: Doing research on doing strategy (2007) (6)
Directions for a Troubled Discipline – Strategy Research, Teaching and Practice (2008) (6)
The Fragmentation of Industrial R&D (1991) (5)
Theories of Strategy (2002) (5)
Organising for success (2002) (4)
Open Strategy (2019) (4)
Stakeholder consultation on tracking in UK veterinary degrees: part 1 (2014) (4)
Playing by the Rules: Institutional Foundations of Success and Failure in the Taiwanese IT Industry (2000) (4)
Diversification and Internationalization in the European Single Market: The British Exception (2017) (4)
Fragmentation Strategies and the Rise of Small Units: The Case of the North West (1987) (3)
Making Strategy:The Hard Work of Institutional Innovation in an Open Professional Field (2015) (3)
Restless Practices as Drivers of Purposive Institutional Change (2021) (3)
Strategy as Practice, Process and Institution: Converging on Activity (2016) (3)
Human resource management implications of new forms of organizing (2000) (3)
Practice-Theoretical Perspectives on Open Strategy: Implications of a Strong Programme (2019) (3)
Corporate Strategies in Recession and Recovery (Routledge Revivals) : Social Structure and Strategic Choice (2014) (3)
Strategy Processes and Practices (2021) (3)
The Strategy Lenses (2012) (2)
The Survival of the European Holding Company: Societal Contingency and Choice (1995) (2)
Stakeholder consultation on tracking in UK veterinary degrees: part 2 (2014) (2)
Objects of Attention: Material Artefacts and Strategic Issue-Sustaining over Time (2015) (2)
New Forms of Organisation in Europe: Complementarities and Performance (1999) (2)
Strategic Disclosure: The Content of Strategy Communications (2011) (1)
Response to Kay: Chandlerism in Post-War Europe: Strategic and Structural Change in France Germany and the UK, 1950-1993: a Comment (2002) (1)
Managing Market‐Oriented Change in Public and Private Sectors (1992) (1)
Strategy as Practice: Reflections (2007) (1)
An innovative approach to post-graduate education in veterinary public health. (2009) (1)
Report of the first veterinary student support workshop (2013) (1)
German Managers in the 1980s and 1990s (1999) (1)
The Communication Advantage: Investigating Impacts of Strategy Announcements (2010) (1)
While corporate UK was for Remain, their business strategies tell a different story (2017) (1)
Chandler and Context (2002) (1)
Economics, Politics and Nations: the Diffusion of the Multidivisional Form in Europe (2004) (1)
More SSOP: Commentary (2013) (1)
Talk, Text and Tools in the Practice of Strategy (2010) (1)
Strategic local responses to aerospace industry restructuring (1992) (1)
Strategy professionals: strategic planners and strategy consultants (2012) (1)
Strategy as Practice : Research Models and Resources (2007) (1)
The Visitor Assistance Survey - An Evaluation of Safety at Corps Recreation Projects. (1996) (1)
Openness as Organizing Principle: Introduction to the Special Issue (2022) (1)
Professional Structures and Practice Change: Institutionalization Processes in Accounting and Strategy (2019) (1)
Strategic Disclosure: Corporate Reputation and the Communication of Strategy (2010) (1)
The How is More Important than the Where (2000) (1)
External Strategy Communications: Adoption and Diffusion (2011) (0)
Practice and Academia in Knowledge Creation (2007) (0)
Editorial: Action, Structure and Organizations (1997) (0)
Strategy, Structure and Performance in European Industry: Corporate and National Perspectives (2000) (0)
West Dunbartonshire community safety partnership (2006) (0)
Book Review (1999) (0)
Disalienation. Politics, philosophy and radical psychiatry in postwar France (2022) (0)
Strategy as Practice: Authors' biographies (2007) (0)
Corporate Careers and Control (2002) (0)
Change, Context, and the Corporation (2002) (0)
Strategic Choice: Logiques d'Action or Corporate Cultures? (1986) (0)
Professional Structures and Practice Change (2019) (0)
Broadening our Sight: Re-Imagining Organizational Theories, Practices & Pedagogies (2020) (0)
How to sustain strategic issues (2008) (0)
The Evergreen Conglomerate (2000) (0)
An Examination of Planning Chief Views and Preferences for the Use of Centers of Expertise in Planning. (1996) (0)
Wall Street Rewards CEOs Who Talk About Their Strategies (2015) (0)
Stock Prices Increase When New CEOs Discuss Strategy Publicly (2016) (0)
Effective participation in Open Strategy processes: How employees get heard by senior management (2021) (0)
Competitive Strategy to Lure the Investor (2001) (0)
Strategy, Structure, and Politics (2002) (0)
The Changing Structures of Industrial R&D (1990) (0)
Book Reviews: C. R. Hinings and R. Greenwood, with the assistance of S. Ransom and K. Walsh: The Dynamics of Strategic Change 1989, Oxford: Blackwell. 223 pages (1990) (0)
Complementarities in the new forms of organising (1999) (0)
It's a Different World: A Dialog on the Attention-Based View in a Post-Chandlerian World (2022) (0)
Smart Strategy: The Role of Smartphone Technology in Opening Strategy Processes (2018) (0)
Commentary (2000) (0)
Strategizing open innovation: foundations for new (2013) (0)
Market-Orientated Strategic Change: Managing Complexity and Context (1995) (0)
Editorial (1997) (0)
Successful Strategic Issue Sustaining: Practice and Outcomes for Senior Managers (2007) (0)
Sustaining Strategic Issues: Practices and Skills (2007) (0)
History that Counts: Opportunities and Threats for Business Historians (2006) (0)
Digital Strategizing: Crafting Strategy in the Age of Platforms, Ecosystems, and Online Communities (2019) (0)
How and where the research was done (2014) (0)
Strategy as Practice: Practical theories (2007) (0)
Strategy workshops and the practice of strategy (2005) (0)
Professional Practices and Market-Driven Change (1996) (0)
A Longitudinal Study on Strategic Planning (2009) (0)
Four Stubborn Decades of Strategic Planning (2009) (0)
Strategy workshops: key episodes for research (2004) (0)
Inclusive Strategy: Opening Strategy to the Middle, Below and Beyond (2019) (0)
Editorial Board (2013) (0)
Big Business Internationalization in two Mediterranean countries: a comparison between Italy and Spain, 1950-2002 (2007) (0)
How to 'Join-up' Change (2001) (0)
Open Strategy and Open Governance: Practices and Technologies (2015) (0)
EBOOK : Fundamentals of Strategy, 3rd Edition (2015) (0)
Seeking outstanding individuals: The evolving practice of strategic planning (2010) (0)
The Practice Turn in Management Studies: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (2018) (0)
Strategic Management (2019) (0)
Local government responses to aerospace restructuring in France and Germany (1990) (0)
Paralysis by Analysis? Four Decades of Strategic Planning (2010) (0)
Just Talk? Strategic Plan Announcements and Market Reactions (2011) (0)
A close look at British business: Was it destined to leave the EU? (2017) (0)
Strategy as Practice: Preface (2007) (0)
Managing Strategic Issues over Time: HR Directors’ Issue Sustaining Skills (2006) (0)
Changing Strategy—for the Better (2019) (0)
In Praise of Fractionated Trading Zones: Respectful Partnerships in Management Innovation (2022) (0)
Lower-level employees’ participation in strategy making over time. (2018) (0)
Employee participation in strategy making over time: Discursive competence and influence (2019) (0)
Strategy Process and Strategy Practice (2010) (0)
Strategic Planning (2019) (0)
Expert Commentary: The Urge to Merge in the Pharmaceutical Industry (2001) (0)
Strategy as Practice: Illustrative papers (2007) (0)
Two Speed Change: Restructuring and Reconfiguration in Turbulent Environments (2011) (0)
Book Reviews : Pradip N. Khandwalla: Innovative Corporate Turnarounds (1994) (0)
When do Restructuring and Reconfiguration Pay? The Contingencies of Environment and Sequence (2012) (0)
Corporate Strategists (2019) (0)
Regional Bias in New Firm Foundation (1986) (0)
Strategy as the intentional structuration of practice: the translation of formal strategies into strategies-in-practice (2011) (0)
Practice and Process: Family Differences? (2006) (0)
“Lege artis” – Exploring the strategizing craft of consultants through the examination of (analytic) strategy tools in use (2013) (0)
Scale, Scope, and Structure (2002) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Sustaining Strategic Issues: Five Longitudinal Cases in Human Resource Management (2007) (0)
Unraveling the Theoretical Traditions in the Field of Strategy-as- Practice (2020) (0)
Was British business destined to leave the EU (2017) (0)
Strategy presentation’s effect on stock prices (2016) (0)
Market Reactions to Strategy Announcements (2011) (0)
The Evolving Practice of Strategic Planning (2010) (0)
Concluding for the Corporation (2002) (0)

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