Discipline and Change: How Technologies and Organizational Routines Interact in New Practice Creation

Labatut, Julie; Aggeri, Franck; Girard, Nathalie

doi:10.1177/0170840611430589

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“…Based on this new ontology, significant efforts have been devoted to exploring issues of agency (Howard-Grenville, 2005) as well as structure in organizational routines, particularly with regard to phenomena involving organizational change, new practices creation, learning, power and political behaviour (Bruns, 2009;D'Adderio, 2008;Labatut, Aggeri, & Girard, 2012;Rerup & Feldman, 2011). This article contributes to ongoing debates on organizational routines by maintaining that equating agency with change is too simplistic and that replacing a duality of agency and structure for the traditional duality of change and stability does not fully account for the complexities of routines as constituted by both ostensive and performative aspects.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Ageism and Organizational Routines at Work: The Case of Day-Parting in Television Broadcasting

Spedale

Coupland

Tempest

2014

Organization Studies

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This article contributes to the study of gendered ageism in the workplace by investigating how the routine of dayparting in broadcasting participates in the social construction of an ideology of 'youthfulness' that contributes to inequality. Critical discourse analysis is applied to the final judgment of an Employment Tribunal court case where the British public service broadcaster, the BBC, faced accusations of discrimination on the basis of both age and gender. Three interrelated findings are highlighted. First, the ideology of youthfulness was constituted through discursive strategies of nomination and predication that relied on an inherently ageist and sexist lexical register of 'brand refreshment and rejuvenation'. Second, the ideology of youthfulness was reproduced through a pervasive discursive strategy of combined de-agentialization, abstraction and generalization that maintained power inequality in the workplace by obscuring the agency of the more powerful organizational actors while further marginalizing the weaker ones. Third, despite evidence that the intersection of age and gender produced qualitatively different experiences for individual organizational actors, in the legitimate and authoritative version of the truth constructed in the Tribunal's final judgment, ageism discursively prevailed over sexism as a form of oppression at work. These findings support the view that the intersection of age and gender in the workplace should be explored by taking into account different levels of analysis -individual, organizational and societal -and with sensitivity to the context. They also suggest that the notion of gendered ageism is still poorly articulated and that the lack of an appropriate vocabulary encourages the discursive dominance of ageism over sexism, making the intersection of the two more difficult to study and to address.

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Gendered Ageism and Organizational Routines at Work: The Case of Day-Parting in Television Broadcasting

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Coupland

Tempest

2014

Organization Studies

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“…Labatut et al (2012) seek to reinsert the study of routines (a micro component) into the wider institutional contexts in which routines are embedded. This is of interest to the study of institutions and agency because standardized ways of doing things, consequent upon the introduction of technologies in organizations or fields, impinge upon and change the ostensive nature of routines (understood broadly) and how routines are enacted in particular settings.…”

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Agency and Institutions in Organization Studies

Abdelnour

Hasselbladh

Kallinikos

2017

Organization Studies

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Agency and institutions are essential concepts within institutional theory. In this Perspectives issue, we draw on a select group of Organization Studies articles to provide an overview of the topic of agency and institutions. We first consider different ways of defining agency and institutions and examine their implications for institutional theory. We then analyse the relationship of actors and institutions through four lenses -the wilful actor, collective intentionality, patchwork institutions and modular individuals. Our analysis leads us to dissociate agency from individuals and view it as a capacity or quality that stems from resources, rights and obligations tied to the roles and social positions actors occupy. Roles and social positions are institutionally engineered. It is social actors qua occupants of roles and positions (not individuals) that enter the social 'stage' and exercise agency.

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“…The best animals are then mated according to their EBVs through artificial insemination or natural mating to ensure the creation of genetic gain. Farmers thus rear the next generation of breeding animals Labatut et al (2012) As regards plant varieties, there are currently tensions between the design of limited-number local breeds with participatory approaches, and design processes that make use of genomic approaches for developing more sustainable animals (disease-resistant, feed efficient, etc. )…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Conversely, merchant innovations such as chemical inputs, decision support tools or varieties are generally generic objects adapted to a large range of agricultural conditions. And some objects can be designed both from a local or a generic point of view: for example, cow breeds designed for worldwide diffusion (Holstein for instance) versus local breeds fitted to one region and specific livestock system (the Manex Black Sheep, a dairy sheep breed for mountainous areas in the Western Pyrenees; see Labatut et al 2012). Actually, the two approaches are often intertwined but both call for design methods that allow the designers to deal with this environmental diversity.…”

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Innovative design for agriculture in the move towards sustainability: scientific challenges

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International audienceAgriculture is facing increasing innovation challenges to meet current societal expectations, yet very few design science studies are devoted to it. This paper highlights some of the particularities of the objects, reasoning and organization of design in agriculture that may open fruitful scientific dialogue between design scientists and agricultural scientists. We first provide an overview of the broad range of objects that are designed in agriculture, and point out their specific characteristics with regard to design. We then identify some particular challenges of design activities in agriculture and review how they have been addressed up to now. Finally, we discuss how design challenges and characteristics in agriculture can contribute to current debate in the field of design science. We propose two main lines of inquiry and debate: enhancing the links between design reasoning and organization, and further conceptualizing the status of use situations in design to deal with uncertainties and complexity in design processes. Acknowledgements: We thank our two research divisions at INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research) for their support to the research on design in agriculture: the Science for Action and Development (SAD) division and the Environment & Agronomy (EA) division. This work was realized on the initiative of the newly born INRA institute for design in agrifood systems. We thank Liz Libbrecht for language editing the English version of this paper, and are deeply grateful to the three anonymous reviewers for their comments that were of great help for improving this article

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Discipline and Change: How Technologies and Organizational Routines Interact in New Practice Creation

Cited by 88 publications

References 67 publications

Gendered Ageism and Organizational Routines at Work: The Case of Day-Parting in Television Broadcasting

Gendered Ageism and Organizational Routines at Work: The Case of Day-Parting in Television Broadcasting

Agency and Institutions in Organization Studies

Innovative design for agriculture in the move towards sustainability: scientific challenges

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