Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Feldman, Martha S.; Orlikowski, Wanda J.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Irvine; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0612
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 1240-1253
• 关键词: practice; practice theory; GENRES; resourcing; routines; technology in practice; sociomateriality

摘要

This paper describes the emerging field of practice theory as it is practiced in relation to organizational phenomena. We identify three approaches-empirical, theoretical, and philosophical-that relate to the what, the how, and the why of using a practice lens. We discuss three principles of the theoretical approach to practice and offer examples of how practice theory has been used in the organizational literature and in our own research. We end with a discussion of the challenges and opportunities that practice theory affords organizational scholarship.