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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Rethinking the Concept of performance in strategy research: Towards a performativity perspective
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Stéphane Guérard
  • Ann Langley
  • David Seidl
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title M@n@gement
Publisher D M S P Research Center
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1286-4892
Volume 16
Number 5
Page Range 566 - 578
Date 2013
Abstract Text Organizational performance is an important concept in strategy research. In this paper, we interrogate the predominant focus on organizational performance as an aggregate organizational-level dependent variable and review three ways in which its role might be fruitfully reconsidered: (1) broadening consideration of performance to more disaggregated levels of analysis, (2) orienting research around the idea of performance as both input and outcome and finally (3) recasting performance in terms of performativity. We provide examples of research that has adopted each of these alternative approaches. We then examine the contributions and drawbacks of each perspective, before proposing an agenda for future research.
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Keywords performance, performativity, strategy as practice, strategy process