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Although human lives towards the second half of the twentieth
century became increasingly mediated by objects and artifacts and
have depended heavily on the functioning of technical systems,
materiality in a broad sense became relatively marginalized as a
topic of research interest. This volume contributes to redressing
the balance by drawing together the work of scholars involved in
exploring the sociomaterial dimensions of organizational life. It
will look at the way material objects and artifacts are conceived
in organizations, and how they function in interaction with human
agents. The book offers a new conceptual repertoire and vocabulary
that allows deeper thought and discussion about the inherent
entanglement of the social and material. Like the preceding volumes
in the Perspectives on Process Organization Studies series, the
book displays the richness that characterizes process thinking, and
combines philosophical reflections with novel conceptual
perspectives and insightful empirical analyses.
Constructing Identity in and around Organizations is the second
volume in Perspectives on Process Organization Studies, a series
which explores an emerging approach to the study of organizations
that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and
change as essential properties of organizations rather than
structures and state - an approach which prioritizes activity over
product, change over persistence, novelty over continuity, and
expression over determination. The constructing of identities -
those processes through which actors in and around organizations
claim, accept, negotiate, affirm, stabilize, maintain, reproduce,
challenge, disrupt, destabilize, repair or otherwise relate to
their sense of selves and others - has become a critically
important topic in the study of organizations. This volume attempts
to amplify - and possibly refract - contemporary debates amongst
identity scholars that question established notions of identity as
"essence", "entity," or "thing". It calls for alternative
approaches to understanding identity and its significance in
contexts in and around organizations by conceptualizing it as
"process" - that is, being continually under construction. Based in
diverse theoretical and philosophical traditions and contexts,
contributions by leading scholars to this volume offer new
perspectives on how individual and organizational identities evolve
and come to be constructed through ongoing activities and
interactions.
One of the most intriguing questions since the time of Plato
concerns what defines skillful performance in terms of specific
capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise. As Frederick
Taylor famously noted, an answer to that question would enable us
to know what to focus on and what to do to improve the performance
of individuals, groups, and organizations. Although we have come to
know a great deal about the 'properties' of capabilities,
knowledge, competence, and expertise at large, we know
significantly less about how they are enacted in skillful
performance. Thus, how skillful performance draws on knowledge, how
skills develop, and how competencies and capabilities are put to
action are still eluding us. Process thinking has not sufficiently
explored skillful performance. This book aims to address this gap.
It brings together scholars from different backgrounds, traditions,
and disciplines whose common perspective is distinctly
process-oriented. They seek to rethink capabilities, knowledge,
competence, and expertise, not as if these phenomena were already
accomplished but, on the contrary, as processes in the making - as
performative accomplishments. Such rethinking opens up several new
conversations and extends the range of inquiry about how
capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise are accomplished
in practice, and, consequently, how they may be improved.
Constructing Identity in and around Organizations is the second
volume in Perspectives on Process Organization Studies, a series
which explores an emerging approach to the study of organizations
that focuses on (understanding) activities, interactions, and
change as essential properties of organizations rather than
structures and state - an approach which prioritizes activity over
product, change over persistence, novelty over continuity, and
expression over determination. The constructing of identities -
those processes through which actors in and around organizations
claim, accept, negotiate, affirm, stabilize, maintain, reproduce,
challenge, disrupt, destabilize, repair or otherwise relate to
their sense of selves and others - has become a critically
important topic in the study of organizations. This volume attempts
to amplify - and possibly refract - contemporary debates amongst
identity scholars that question established notions of identity as
"essence", "entity," or "thing". It calls for alternative
approaches to understanding identity and its significance in
contexts in and around organizations by conceptualizing it as
"process" - that is, being continually under construction. Based in
diverse theoretical and philosophical traditions and contexts,
contributions by leading scholars to this volume offer new
perspectives on how individual and organizational identities evolve
and come to be constructed through ongoing activities and
interactions.
Research in strategy has shifted significantly towards strategy as
something organizations have, rather than strategy as something
that managers do. The activities of the people who actually manage
and develop organizational strategy have become marginalized.
Strategy as Practice argues the reverse: that research on strategy
needs to take seriously what strategists do and the effects of what
they do. Written by a distinguished team of researchers and
educators, this book sets out a research agenda, provides
guidelines on theoretical perspectives and alternative
methodologies for research on practice as well as commentaries on
published illustrative papers that exemplify the practice
perspective. Strategy as Practice will be essential reading for
doctoral students, researchers and academics who wish to understand
or undertake research in this important field of management
research.
Research in strategy has shifted significantly towards strategy as
something organizations have, rather than strategy as something
that managers do. The activities of the people who actually manage
and develop organizational strategy have become marginalized.
Strategy as Practice argues the reverse: that research on strategy
needs to take seriously what strategists do and the effects of what
they do. Written by a distinguished team of researchers and
educators, this book sets out a research agenda, provides
guidelines on theoretical perspectives and alternative
methodologies for research on practice as well as commentaries on
published illustrative papers that exemplify the practice
perspective. Strategy as Practice will be essential reading for
doctoral students, researchers and academics who wish to understand
or undertake research in this important field of management
research.
The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies provides a
comprehensive and timely overview of the field. This volume offers
a compendium of perspectives on process thinking, process
organizational theory, process research methodology and empirical
applications. The emphasis is on a combination of pedagogical
contributions and in-depth reviews of current thinking and research
in each of the selected areas, combined with the development of
agendas for future research. The Handbook is divided into five
sections: Part One: Process Philosophy Part Two: Process Theory
Part Three: Process Methodology Part Four: Process Applications
Part Five: Process Perspectives
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