Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
As in the composition of a fugue: Capturing the flow of strategic business activities
Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management). Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, JIBS, Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO). (Tillväxtgruppen)
2008 (English)In: International Journal of Qualitative Methods, E-ISSN 1609-4069, Vol. 7, no 2, p. 58-76Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Drawing inspiration from classical music, this article introduces a musical metaphor - the fugue - to capture a flow of strategic activities, highlighting the motion aspect. This particular metaphor connotes dynamism, constituted in themes, which are repeated, expanded and varied through human voices and their communication. By giving voice to people who share and participate in globalization, internationalization and customization related to the efforts of a company to grow continuously, elevating movements inherent in these activities, a fugue is composed. As argued in the article, there is potential in ‘musicking’ interpretation of human activity. The fugue metaphor could assist our efforts to methodologize strategy process as dynamic multi-direction and multi-voice construct. While directing more attention to a musical, arts-based form of communicating research we could be able to listen more carefully to the moves inherent in a flow of human activity.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2008. Vol. 7, no 2, p. 58-76
Keywords [en]
musical metaphor, movement, voice, flow, Bach
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-7569OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-7569DiVA, id: diva2:134445
Available from: 2009-01-22 Created: 2009-01-21 Last updated: 2024-01-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Authority records

Ericson, Mona

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Ericson, Mona
By organisation
JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management)JIBS, Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO)
In the same journal
International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 228 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf