TY  - CHAP
TI  - How Cities Think: Thought Style, Thought Collective, and the Impact of Strategy
AB  - In this chapter, the authors introduce Ludwik Fleck and his ideas of “thought style” and “thought collective” to suggest a re-thinking of the divide between “micro” and “macro” that has perhaps more inhibited than inspired organization studies in general, and institutional theory in particular. With Fleck, the authors argue that there is no such thing as thought style-neutral cognition or undirected perception: meaning, constituted through a specific thought style shared by a thought collective, permeates cognition, judgment, perception, and thought. The authors illustrate our argument with the longitudinal case study of Sydney 2030 (i.e., the strategy-making process of the City of Sydney, Australia). Our case suggests that – regardless of its actual implementation – a strategy is successful to the extent to which it shapes the socio-cognitive infrastructure of a collective and enables those engaged in city-making to think and act collectively.
AF  - Macrofoundations: Exploring the Institutionally Situated Nature of Activity
PP  - Bingley
SN  - 9781839091605
PB  - Emerald Publishing
SP  - 185
EP  - 200
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20200000068004
PY  - 2020-01-01
AU  - Meyer, Renate 
AU  - Kornberger, Martin 
AU  - Höllerer, Markus 
ER -