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Praxis and its mediators in ‘Strategy as Practice’: the role of technology use consolidating the strategizing

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Despite claims for more qualitative and quantitative approximations between fundamental areas of  Organization Studies, so to unlock its explanatory potentials, there are still some theoretical gaps that hold such integrations back. An example regards Strategy and Technology themes, when the following question is considered: what is the role of technology use in the strategizing? Motivated by this issue, the essay aims at developing an analysis focused on the strategic purposes of the empirical studies conducted and portrayed by Orlikowski (1992) and Schultze and Orlikowski (2004), attempting to bridge Strategy and Technology topics from a practice-centered approach, capitalizing from epistemological, theoretical and methodological convergence of the 'Strategy as Practice' and the 'Technologies-in-Practice' approaches. The essay evidences that the technology use in organizations works as a mediator for the praxis of strategy practitioners concerning issues and activities of framing and enacting practices that sustain the organizational strategy, at the same time as this very technology tool-kit usage comes from the practitioner's strategic thinking and acting.

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