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Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data (Langley, 1999) - Weekend Classics
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English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:22:42 Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:43:52 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:03:07 Reference Langley, A. (1999). Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data. Academy of Management Review, 24(4), 691–710. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1999.2553248 Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit/ From Process Data to Process Theory (webinar by Ann Langley) https://www.youtube.com/live/C3xqP_EVYXQ?si=9mlCWPf7HLrikBRv 🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit and to this episode of Weekend Classics . There are some papers I read for insight, and then there are some I return to almost like conversation. Not because they are easy, and not because they flatter me with certainty, but because they remind me that scholarship, at its best, is a way of staying honest in the presence of complexity. 📚💭 Today, I’m revisiting Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data by Ann Langley, published on 1 October 1999 in the Academy of Management Review , one of those FT50-listed spaces where ideas are expected to carry weight, and published by the Academy of Management. And this paper does carry weight, though not the heavy, joyless kind. It carries the weight of someone who has looked at the mess of organizational life and refused to reduce it too quickly. 🧠🌀 What Langley seems to understand, and what I find deeply moving as a researcher, is that organizations do not live in neat categories. They live in time. They unfold. They hesitate. They collide with contingency. They become what they are through sequences, through interruptions, through moments that only later begin to look like patterns. ⏳🔍 This paper takes that messiness seriously. It walks us through seve…