TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract I seek to further develop the behavioral approach to strategic management through sketching a communitarian view of the firm. Specifically, I argue that the latter, informed by a practice-based onto-epistemology, especially a neo-Aristotelian understanding of praxis, and the related institutional work of Selznick, suggests the centrality of value commitments firms make, which, through habituation, are integrated to form organizational character. The latter provides firms with certain core competences – a distinctive style with which practitioners enact their tasks. Organizational character helps confront the self-command problem firms face. However, the behavioral consistency that character provides may lead to rigidities when competitive circumstances change, while organizational character, through praxis, may take on features that prevent the leadership of a firm from realizing the novelty of the circumstances in order to modify existing core competences and the accompanying organizational character dispositions.
VL  - 39
SN  - 978-1-78756-348-3, 978-1-78756-347-6/0742-3322
DO  - 10.1108/S0742-332220180000039013
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220180000039013
AU  - Tsoukas Haridimos
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Praxis, Character, and Competence: From a Behavioral to a Communitarian View of the Firm
T2  - Behavioral Strategy in Perspective
T3  - Advances in Strategic Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 181
EP  - 194
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -