2002
DOI: 10.1017/s0020859002000743
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The Challenge of Strategy: A Comment

Abstract: Is “strategy” merely a sympathetic and convenient phrase, on closer scrutiny devoid of explanatory value as a scientific concept? Have we been beguiled by its appeal and should we now, wiser and sadder, return to less pretentious concepts such as tactics or agency? Or do we need more empirical applications and have we just begun to explore strategy's vistas?

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“…In my view, not knowing individual people's motives and goals should not refrain us from hypothesizing about the most likely goals of people in specific places and periods (Kok, 2002). We need to place people carefully within their historical and local contexts, which implies we know their general cultural preferences and behavioural routines.…”
Section: Can the Principle Of Agency Really Be Applied To Individual mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In my view, not knowing individual people's motives and goals should not refrain us from hypothesizing about the most likely goals of people in specific places and periods (Kok, 2002). We need to place people carefully within their historical and local contexts, which implies we know their general cultural preferences and behavioural routines.…”
Section: Can the Principle Of Agency Really Be Applied To Individual mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Daarnaast was informatie gewenst over inkomen, landbezit en vererving. 65 In een vervolgproject werd daarom een bestand gebouwd rond 300 gezinnen in het Noord-Hollandse Akersloot. Eén van de uitkomsten van dat bestand vormt het artikel over de huwelijksstrategie van boeren.…”
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“…Fontaine and Schlumbohm, ‘Household strategies’; Boulton, ‘“Extreme necessity”’; Kok, ‘Challenge of strategy’; Engelen, ‘Labour strategies’; Viazzo and Lynch, ‘Anthropology’.…”
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confidence: 99%