11119: Strategy and Organizationality: The More We Strategize, the More We are Organized?

Monday, July 28, 2025

12:00 - 13:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall A- A3-m2

Session Type: Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Research
Highlight: Showcase Symposium
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/AB7bbz

Organizer(s)

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Leonhard Dobusch

Universität Innsbruck, Austria
MN

Monica Nadegger

LMU Munich School of Management, Germany

Panelist(s)

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David Nils Seidl

U. of Zurich, Switzerland
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Dennis Schoeneborn

Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Ann Langley

HEC Montreal, CANADA
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Heloise Amandine Berkowitz

Aix-Marseille University, France
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Birte Asmuß

Aarhus University, Denmark

In this panel proposal, we thus discuss the potential of integrating strategy-as-practice and organizationality. More generally, the relationship between strategy-making and organizationality poses questions whether the more something is organized, the more ‘likely’ it is for strategizing to happen; or whether the more strategizing happens in a certain context, the more something becomes organizational. Empirically, this poses questions such as how (the effectiveness of various) strategy-making practices change depending on the degree of a collective’s organizationality. For example, strategizing within social movements, networks or meta-organizations faces very different challenges when compared to more traditional formal organizational settings, including unclear and constantly changing boundaries as well as lack of hierarchical structures or formal-hierarchical leadership.