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Ten Good Reasons for Assuming a ‘ Practice Lens ’ in Organization Studies
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Corradi, Gessica Gherardi, Silvia Verzelloni, Luca |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | Introduction 'Practice-based studies': a label whose time has come! Labels can be considered quasi-objects (Czarniaswka and Jorges 1995) that easily travel and translate ideas from one place to another. Their capacity to transport ideas and to spread fashions resides in the equivocalness that they make possible. When a label is used, the legitimation associated with it is mobilized – by imitation – and processes of institutional isomorphism are generated. At the same time as we verify the uncertainty of an innovation, saying that we are doing what others are also doing, we are able to protect a space for experimentation, a space in which to do otherwise and perhaps to conceal failures. Isomorphism enables allomorphism (Gherardi and Lippi, 2000). Labels are therefore vectors of innovation and institutionalization that allow the translation of ideas as they diffuse them (Czarniaswka and Sévon, 2005). One label that has generated and is transporting/translating new ideas in studies on organizational learning and knowledge management is that of 'practice-based studies' (henceforth PBS). When did it first appear? Who introduced it? What does it denote? It strikes us as a platitude, as an idea whose time has come, because it seems to have been always with us. The aim of this paper is to investigate how the idea of PBS came into being, and how its entry into use started up a 'bandwagon': that is, brought together various 2 strands of inquiry with certain features in common. The question that we shall seek to answer is where is this bandwagon heading? We shall give an answer by trying to identify the good reasons for communities of researchers to join the bandwagon. If you type the expression " Practice-Based Studies " in the Google search box, the results window immediately displays a host of web pages which apparently have nothing to do with learning and organizations. The overwhelming majority of the references relate to professional domains: primarily medicine (nutrition, paediatrics, dentistry, nursing) and education. The theories developed in these sectors relate to the 'commonsense meaning' that the concept of 'practice' is able to communicate. The word has a broad sense which encompass the body of knowledge at the base of professional expertise; the form taken by learning; entry and socialization to a professional community; and the repetition of an acquired skill. The professions use the expression 'practice-based studies' or 'practice-based theory' to emphasise the learning from direct experience … |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Resource Type | Article |
