Near-Histories and Strategy Emergence (Lamberg et al. 2025) | FT50 ASQ

English Podcast Starts at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:20:50Danish Podcast Starts at 00:27:41Suomi(Finnish) Podcast Starts at 00:33:24🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit ✨🎙️Today, we’re stepping into a story that isn’t about what happened… but about what almost happened. 📚🔍 Because sometimes, the choices we don’t make cast longer shadows than the ones we do.In this episode, we’ll explore the brilliant research article titled:“Near-Histories and Strategy Emergence: A Microhistorical Perspective” ✨by Juha-Antti Lamberg, Eero Vaara, Pasi Nevalainen, and Henrikki Tikkanen.Published in the prestigious Administrative Science Quarterly—yes, that’s right, one of the FT50 journals 🏆—and brought to us by SAGE Publications, this paper takes us deep into the world of strategy, history, and unintended consequences.Imagine Nokia’s boardroom in moments when bold strategies were on the table, only to vanish before they became reality. 🤔 Those decisions never taken… those paths never followed… weren’t dead ends at all. Instead, as our authors show using a microhistorical lens, they sparked ripple effects—reshaping networks, rewiring expectations, and nudging Nokia toward entirely new strategic directions. 💡📈This is more than just corporate history—it’s a reminder that strategy isn’t only written in bold decisions, but also in the whispers of near histories that could have been.But here’s the question that lingers as we dive in today:👉 Could the futures we never choose be the very forces that quietly shape the futures we end up living? 🌌A huge thank you 🙏 to our authors Lamberg, Vaara, Nevalainen, and Tikkanen, and to SAGE Publications for sharing this groundbreaking work in the world-renowned Administrative Science Quarterly.And before we begin, don’t forget:✨ Hit subscribe on our podcast "Revise and Resubmit" on Spotify 🎧✨ Follow our YouTube channel "Weekend Researcher" 📺✨ You can also find us on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcasts 🍏🎶🔔 Stay with us—because in today’s episode, we’re unearthing the power of near histories.ReferenceLamberg, J.-A., Vaara, E., Nevalainen, P., & Tikkanen, H. (2025). Near-Histories and Strategy Emergence: A Microhistorical Perspective. Administrative Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392251355283‌Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher