This book re-orients our thinking about strategy away from its being a mode of control and towards its being one of self awareness. The author defines strategic inquiry as the undertaking of successive attempts to present an organization to itself and others. This, the book argues, is an activity of judgment, not decision.

• 1: Skepticism


• 2: Paris


• 3: Space


• 4: Vision


• 5: Images


• 6: Critique


• 7: Spectating.


• 8: Unhomeliness


• 9: The Public


• 10: Authority


• 11: The Judge


• 12: Good Pastoral

Robin Holt has enjoyed a serpentine academic career and is currently Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and visiting Professor at Nottingham Business School, NTU, UK. He has worked on questions of value and evaluation in the fields of politics, philosophy and organization and management studies, and was, from 2013-2017, editor of the journal Organization Studies.