Robert C.H. Chia
Management and organization theorist known for process and practice perspectives on strategy, including work on strategy-as-practice and the philosophy of becoming; co-author of Strategy Without Design and a longtime UK-based professor (e.g., University of Glasgow).
Books
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1. Strategy Without Design
The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action
Challenges the dominant view of strategy as deliberate design, proposing that effective action emerges from practical coping and indirect, context-sensitive moves rather than grand plans. Drawing on process and pragmatist thought, it reframes strategy as wayfinding through evolving situations, where habits, routines, and small adjustments accumulate into advantage. The message favors cultivating dispositions and enabling conditions over pursuing fixed objectives, emphasizing attentiveness, timing, and minimal intervention.