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Organization Theories in the Making aims to demonstrate how, over
the last 25 years, the field of organization theories (OTs) has
been providing stimulating, thoughtful, and innovative
perspectives. The book offers a selective immersion in
organizational institutionalism, convention analysis, network
analysis, knowledge studies, discourse studies, and practice
studies. For each of these perspectives, the book explores its
different research streams and zooms in the research communities
that give rise to them. In addition, it highlights how these
perspectives all intersect with each other to form a mosaic of
ideas that define today's organizations. Rouleau also invites
graduate students and early career researchers to learn how recent
theories view and portray the organization and, more specifically,
to understand current research questions, conceptual resources, and
methods. A deep knowledge of recent OTs is key when building a
compelling literature review and making meaningful theoretical
contributions. This book offers readers with the opportunity to
develop their theory-building skills and more by taking a deep dive
in the complexities and controversies of OTs. The main arguments of
each perspective are illustrated by specific exemplars from
academic journals. Each chapter contains a synoptic table
summarizing the main scholarly components within each perspective
and its research substreams.
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.
Now in its second edition, this extended and thoroughly updated
handbook introduces researchers and students to the growing range
of theoretical and methodological perspectives being developed in
the vibrant field of strategy as practice. With new authors and
additional chapters, it shows how the strategy as practice approach
in strategic management moves away from disembodied and asocial
studies of firm assets, technologies and practices to explore and
explain the contribution that strategizing makes to people working
at all levels of an organization. It breaks down many of the
traditional paradigmatic barriers in strategy to investigate who
the strategists are, what they do, how they do it, and what the
consequences or outcomes of their actions are. This essential work
summarizes recent developments in the field while presenting a
clear agenda for future research.
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