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This article aims to reinterpret open strategy as a concept deeply rooted in historical contexts rather than a recent innovation.

Open strategy and the historical framing of openness

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Conceptualizing openness in strategies shows how it connects to historical practices of participation and authority.

This article aims to reinterpret open strategy as a concept deeply rooted in historical contexts rather than a recent innovation.
Adopting an interpretive and conceptual-historical approach
Analyzing continuities from historical industrial practices to modern strategies
Engaging with industrial relations theory and historical organization studies.
Revealed how practices of transparency and inclusion reshape tensions between control and participation.
Illustrated that contemporary notions of openness obscure the legacy of industrial democracy.
Contributed to historical organization studies by linking strategy concepts to long-standing institutional trajectories.

McGovern et al. (2026) studied this question.

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