Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute a constructionist perspective to debates in the strategy literature about the ways in which managers conduct strategy work. The authors build on observations that fantasy plays a central role in strategy work and aim to focus on the ways in...

This paper examines clinician–manager interactions within healthcare organizations in the UK and contrasts the notions of dialetics and dialogues within such interactions. We draw particularly on Bakhtin’s work on dialogue to frame our focal research question, which considers the extent to...