Strategising practices in an informal economy setting: A case of strategic networking

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dc.contributor.authorDarbi, W.P.K.
dc.contributor.authorKnott, P.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-29T02:50:40Z
dc.date.available2016-07-29T02:50:40Z
dc.date.issued2016en
dc.description.abstractDespite the increasing interest in strategy as situated practice, studies that examine strategising practices in the informal economy are lacking. This article draws on Bourdieu's theory of practice to understand strategic networking practices in an informal economy setting. Employing ethnographic techniques, it sets out to study how an informal business and its network partners do strategic networking. We found that their strategic networking practices pivot around co-opetition, and are characterised within four interconnected themes: open communication, mutual surrogacy, fraternal engagement and naturalisation. These themes are constitutive of an interrelated set of field-specific practices, capital, habitus and dispositions of the informal business and its network partners. The study contributes to strategy-as-practice and strategic networking literatureby showing how actors adopt and internalise strategising practices, and how this predisposition may be traced to strategic networking practices, choices and outcomes.en
dc.identifier.citationDarbi, W.P.K., Knott, P. (2016) Strategising practices in an informal economy setting: A case of strategic networking. European Management Journal, (In Press).en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2015.12.009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/12537
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurshipen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
dc.subjectstrategy as practiceen
dc.subjectinformal economyen
dc.subjectinformal sectoren
dc.subjectinformal businessen
dc.subjectstrategic networksen
dc.subjectGhanaen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::15 - Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services::1503 - Business and Management::150312 - Organisational Planning and Managementen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::17 - Psychology and Cognitive Sciences::1701 - Psychology::170107 - Industrial and Organisational Psychologyen
dc.titleStrategising practices in an informal economy setting: A case of strategic networkingen
dc.typeJournal Article
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