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..., the paper advocates writing Foucault into strategic management. Alan McKinlay can be contacted at: am53@st‐andrews.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Accounting Government Corporate strategy Management philosophy We begin this article by discussing the seminal...