This is a super and overdue book. It embraces the central importance of organization theory and, especially, the play of power and politics both inside and outside the organization. This erudite book promises to redraw how we approach the study of strategy - and not before time!

Royston Greenwood, Associate Dean, School of Business,
University of Alberta, Canada

The authors have successfully produced a unique and admirable combination of critical external engagement with ‘stratey’, understood as a complex object if organization and political construction, and a highly-accessible tesxtbook, rich in illustrative cases.

Mike power, London School of Economics, UK