On the Way to Theory: A Processual Approach

Nayak, Ajit

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“…At the extreme contextualist end, everything is in flux, and there is nothing against which any truth claim can be grounded, because there would already have been change as things had moved on. The postmodern type of process research would reside towards this end of the continuum, as well as some of the recent calls for change to be seen as the basic manifestation of (social) reality (Nayak 2008; Tsoukas and Chia 2002). At the extreme generalist end, process is simply seen as conforming to fixed flows and sequences that regulate how one event is followed by the next and automatically leads to a pre‐programmed outcome.…”

Section: Process Theory Process Methodology and Managing Strategy Fomentioning

confidence: 99%

Process research in strategy formation: Theory, methodology and relevance

Sminia

2009

Int J Management Reviews

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This paper develops a view of the strategy formation process, drawing on a review of contributions that are based on a process approach, and more specifically the work of Henry Mintzberg, Andrew Pettigrew and Andrew Van de Ven. This view is meant to provide a way to bridge the content-process gap in strategic management by addressing the aspects of process theory and process methodology. Structuration is found to provide a useful theoretical basis for strategy formation research. Process methodology is found to be about discovering valid generative mechanisms that explain regular patterns in event sequences. Strategy formation research can then be made relevant for management practice by providing insight with regard to generative mechanisms and associated process trajectories of continuity and change, to allow for judgements on the favourability of the course of the process as well as the necessity to intervene or to let the process run its course.

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Section: Process Theory Process Methodology and Managing Strategy Fomentioning

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Process research in strategy formation: Theory, methodology and relevance

Sminia

2009

Int J Management Reviews

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“…In siteresponsive interventions the site energises a question and the intervention discusses the question via a response. It is therefore open to the unfinished, which according to Ajit Nayak [11] is related to an ontological becoming as a creative method of theory building. The site-responsive is very much a creative practice engagement energised by theory, with the latter acting as an agent for the conceptualisation and development of the intervention.…”

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Transforming fortresses into artworks: two cultural sites become spaces of topological immersion

Psarologaki¹

2016

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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The paper explores the transformation of places of heritage into spaces of architecturalised contemporary art that takes place as a localised event. This art practice embraces the sites' historical qualities and architectural context, and is defined as 'chorotopical' from choros as space and topos as locus. The investigation presents two project proposals as case studies: (i) 'Sound[e]scape': an ephemeral sound intervention proposal for the Square Tower of Old Portsmouth Harbour in Southsea, UK and (ii) 'Spatial Sea': a light-projection installation proposal for St. George Gate, in the Venetian fortification of Heraklion Crete, Greece in collaboration with the Municipality of Heraklion. The paper examines architectural site as aylos topos and artistic interventions as temporal interruptions creating a lived experience. The paper sets a topological and ontological perspective in the making of site-reliant art and creates a philosophical index for the role of the site in the spatial creation. It moreover shifts the agenda of thinking of art and architecture as two distinct spatial practices, looking on the contrary for practical implications as well as the establishment of a shared theoretical vocabulary when the two dynamically collide in the creation of space.

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“…Uma vez que organização e desorganização coexistem e estão intimamente ligadas -o aumento de organização reduz a desorganização -, elas não são essencialmente distintas, mas apenas se diferenciam em gradações (NAYAK, 2008). Assim, ao invés de pressupormos as organizações como entidades coerentes que produzem uma realidade claramente ordenada e organizada, seria mais produtivos falarmos em redes de relações (LAW, 1992;LATOUR, 2005).…”

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Escolas de samba: trajetória, contradições e contribuições para os estudos organizacionais

Tureta

Félix

2013

Organ. Soc.

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ResumoO objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma discussão a respeito da suposta perda de autenticidade e tradição das escolas de samba e fornecer uma contribuição para a análise organizacional, tendo em vista as características peculiares desse tipo de organização, o que nos permitiu destacar a ideia de organizações sem fronteiras. Apesar de serem significativamente pesquisadas na antropologia e na sociologia, tais organizações não ganharam ainda a devida atenção da administração. Essas agremiações são tratadas por alguns autores como entidades que sofreram grandes transformações e, por isso, teriam perdido sua autenticidade e tradição, a partir daquilo que fi cou conhecido como mercantilização/modernização do carnaval, além da chamada invasão da classe média. Argumentamos que a "mercantilzação/modernização" do carnaval e "invasão" da classe média não produziram a suposta perda de autenticidade e tradição, uma vez que a comercialização do carnaval já se fazia presente no cenário brasileiro desde o início do século XX e a relação entre cultura popular e elite não é algo novo. Assumimos a posição de que "tradição" e "modernidade" não são dicotômicas e excludentes. Como desdobramento da discussão proposta, procuramos apontar que os estudos das práticas organizativas seriam um caminho interessante para superar as dicotomias comumente empregadas nos estudos de escolas de samba, as quais, na verdade, se confi guram como organizações sem fronteiras.Palavaras-chave: Escolas de samba. Carnaval. Cultura popular. Práticas organizativas. Desfi les carnavalescos.Samba Schools: history, contradictions and contributions to organizational studies Abstract T he aim of this paper is to present a discussion about the supposed loss of authenticity and tradition in samba schools and provide a contribution to organizational analysis considering the peculiar characteristics of this type of organization which highlights the idea of borderless organizations. Despite being widely studied in anthropology and sociology, these organizations have failed to gain the attention of the fi eld of business administration. These organizations are treated by some authors as entities that have undergone major changes, and therefore have lost their authenticity and tradition as a result of what has became known as commodifi cation / modernization of carnival, invasion beyond the call of the middle class. We argue that the "mercantilization / modernization" of Carnival and the "invasion" of the middle class has not led to the alleged loss of authenticity and tradition because the marketing of carnival has been present in Brazil since the early twentieth century and the relationship between elite and popular culture is not something new. We take the position that "tradition" and "modernity" are neither dichotomous nor exclusionary. We point out that a study of organizational practices would be an interesting way to overcome the dichotomies commonly used in studies of samba schools, which actually take shape as organizations without borders.

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On the Way to Theory: A Processual Approach

Cited by 61 publications

References 28 publications

Process research in strategy formation: Theory, methodology and relevance

Process research in strategy formation: Theory, methodology and relevance

Transforming fortresses into artworks: two cultural sites become spaces of topological immersion

Escolas de samba: trajetória, contradições e contribuições para os estudos organizacionais

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