Participative Organizing as Relational Practice
Series
Advanced series in management
ISBN
978-0-85724-006-4
Type
book section
Date Issued
2010
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Van Looy, Bart
Abstract
This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand, conceive, and study processes of organization, and subscribes to a processual view of organization that, since Weick's seminal book The Social Psychology of Organizing, has turned the study of organizations into one of organizing. More than 30 years later, the field of organizing has increasingly expanded Weick's interpretive framework of sense making, resulting in a rich palette of conceptual frameworks that vary between such diverse processual approaches as complexity theory, phenomenology, narration, dramaturgy, ethnomethodology, discourse (analysis), practice, actor-network theory, and radical process theory (Steyaert, 2007). These various theoretical approaches draw upon and give expression to a relational turn that has transformed conceptual thinking in philosophy, literature, and social sciences, and that increasingly inscribes the study of organization within an ontology of becoming.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Book title
Relational Practices, Participative Organizing
Publisher
Emerald
Publisher place
Bingley
Number
Vol. 7
Start page
1
End page
20
Pages
20
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
68783