Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bechky, Beth A.
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Davis
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0603
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 1157-1167
• 关键词: work; Occupations; institutions; Professions; negotiated order

摘要

In this essay I argue that organizational theorizing would benefit from incorporating a richer understanding of work and occupations. To demonstrate how, I turn to recent literature analyzing inhabited institutions, occupations as institutions, and occupations as negotiated orders. I explore the theoretical and methodological implications of these approaches to show how they challenge some of our more abstract images of organizations. They do so by grounding their theoretical frameworks in work practices and interaction, interpretation and meaning, and understandings of occupational membership.