Why is it that so many aspects of organizations are now spoken of
as practices? How can organizations be studied within a
practice-based approach? How can workable knowledge about them be
produced? The authors answer these questions theoretically and
through empirical examples. They provide an overview on
practice-based studies illustrating their main topics, research
methods, and the theoretical reflections that support a
non-rationalist and non-cognitivist view of organizations. The book
addresses the principal features of practice-based theorizing and
its key concepts, then concludes with methodological reflections on
the practice-based approach. Written for a university public
already in possession of basic notions in organizational studies
and intending to conduct analysis of organizing as a social
practice, it will also prove essential for master and PhD students
as well as organizational scholars designing research within
Practice-Based Studies. Including a lively and wide-ranging debate
conducted at international level, the book will be of interest to
practitioners curious about a view of work as a practical activity
that develops within ecology of social, economic and material
relationships. Contents: Introduction Part I: Practice-based
Theorizing 1. Practice-Based Theorizing on Learning and Knowing in
Organizations: An Introduction' 2. Knowing in Practice: Aesthetic
Understanding and Tacit Knowledge 3. Knowing as Desiring. Mythic
Knowledge and the Knowledge Journey in Communities of Practitioners
4. Situated Knowledge and Situated Action: What do Practice-Based
Studies Promise? 5. Through the Practice Lens: Where Is the
Bandwagon of Practice-Based Studies Heading? Part II: Key Concepts
6. Sensible Knowledge and Practice-Based Learning 7. Knowing in a
System of Fragmented Knowledge 8. Learning in a Constellation of
Interconnected Practices: Canon or Dissonance? 9. Aesthetics in the
Study of Organizational Life 10. The Passion for Knowing 11.
Practice? It's a Matter of Taste! Part III: Methodological Insights
for a Practice-based Approach 12. When Will He Say: 'Today the
Plates are Soft'?: Management of Ambiguity and Situated
Decision-Making 13. Do You Do Beautiful Things?: Aesthetics and Art
in Qualitative Methods of Organization Studies 14. Organizational
Artifacts and the Aesthetic Approach 15. The Critical Power of the
Practice Lens
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