Restless Practices as Drivers of Purposive Institutional Change

Seidl, David; Ohlson, Tanja; Whittington, Richard

doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20200000070006

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“…This new practice joins the CPS bundle through the material arrangement it shares with them, including digital platforms themselves, artisans’ bodies, craft projects, computers, cameras, and other artefacts entailed in making posts to platforms. We regard platformance as a “restless practice”: a practice with a “telos of change” (Seidl et al, 2021) whose purpose is to amend markets in the face of platformization.…”

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“…Engagement in platformance reflects prosumers’ perception that, to succeed in platform markets, one must “play the part”—or perform success. Platformance is a “restless practice”: a practice with a “telos of change” that aims to alter the field in which it is embedded (Seidl et al, 2021). We find that although platformance contributes to changing certain platform markets elements in ways that may help prosumers deal with platformization, it also increases prosumers’ platform dependence.…”

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Restless platformance: How prosumer practices change platform markets

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Fischer

2023

Marketing Theory

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Prosumers in many markets are increasingly using platforms for their inter-related production and consumption pursuits. Using a practice theory lens, this paper examines how the connections between the bundle of marketing practices performed by entrepreneurial prosumers in the craft market are altered when they come to rely on platforms like Etsy. It identifies a new practice, labeled “platformance,” that these prosumers adopt in response to changes in their practices bundle. Platformance is a restless practice in that it aims to alter the market in which it is embedded. Findings reported here suggest that platformance may help prosumers deal with platformization by changing certain market elements, but ironically may also increase their platform dependence. Platformance may also contribute to altering aspects of the platform markets in which it is performed.

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Restless platformance: How prosumer practices change platform markets

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Fischer

2023

Marketing Theory

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“…Even though unintended consequences play a role in these studies, as when a practice breaks down, they are usually recognized at some point and become learning opportunities rather than a trigger of self-reinforcing dynamics (e.g., Jarzabkowski, Lé, & Balogun, 2019). Practice-based research therefore has a clear bias toward change processes that are largely intended, either because practitioners experience, reflect on, and react to breakdowns (Lok & de Rond, 2013) or because they strive for “restless change” (Seidl, Ohlson, & Whittington, 2021).…”

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When Practices Control Practitioners: Integrating self-reinforcing dynamics into practice-based accounts of managing and organizing

Kremser¹,

Sydow

2022

Organization Theory

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Practice theories inform much of current organization and management research by focusing on social practices “in vivo and in situ,” helping us understand how they are produced, reproduced, connected, and eventually transformed by practitioners. Despite the explicit focus of these theories on process, some important dynamics within and across organizations remain undertheorized. This is particularly true for self-reinforcing processes like escalating commitment or path dependence. While such dynamics have been studied quite extensively with the help of other theories, this work often lacks a clear relation or relevance to lived life in organizations. This paper offers an integration of self-reinforcing dynamics into practice-based theorizing, and thereby outlines a new way of understanding self-reinforcement “in vivo and in situ.” By discussing the role and relevance of specific performative linkages as being “weak signals” for self-reinforcement, we provide a new way of analysing this important process phenomenon that is closer to life lived forward, where outcomes are necessarily uncertain, and practitioners can always choose to act differently.

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“…There is no doubt that entrepreneurship education constitutes a thriving international research field in which there is an incessant flow of diverse studies and research (Alshebami et al, 2022;Raza et al, 2021). However, there is a gap between academic contributions and achievements in the practice of entrepreneurship education (Crawford et al, 2022;Genus et al, 2021;Parisini, 2021;Seidl et al, 2021). It is even argued that, paradoxically, the traditional paradigm of entrepreneurship education harms precisely what it aspires to achieve: entrepreneurial competence and activity.…”

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Entrepreneurial Potential in Secondary School Students. An Exploratory Evaluation

Bernal-Guerrero,

Cárdenas-Gutiérrez,

Domínguez-Quintero

et al. 2024

Sage Open

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Over the last decade, various entrepreneurial school practices have proliferated, including the creation of mini-companies. In the Spanish context, the Empresa Joven Europea (EJE) program has been the most widely employed educative program in this respect. Empresa Joven Europea is an educational program that proposes that secondary education students create and manage their own mini-businesses, thereby taking the legal form of a cooperative society and facilitating the acquisition of all basic educational skills through the cultivation of entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, there is still a gap between the theory and the practice of entrepreneurship education which, together with the conceptual expansion experienced in recent years, increases the need to assess the effectiveness of this type of programs. By means of an explanatory and cross-sectional study, we evaluated the impact of the program on the configuration of the entrepreneurial potential of the participating adolescents ( N = 270). The analysis has been carried out utilizing PLS-SEM with SmartPLS software version 3.3.9 and SPSS version 25. None of the six hypotheses formulated have been confirmed, which means that the desired effects have not been achieved in any of the three variables under study: attitudes, knowledge, and entrepreneurial skills. Such results may be related to aspects of curricular organization, the type of experiences based on cooperatives, a certain structural and conceptual lack of definition of the pedagogical methodology used, and the development of skills linked to identity. Moreover, it is possible that, although it is not evident in the competencies acquired, the program has influenced the apperception of what it means to be an entrepreneur and of the creation of critical awareness, which is associated with entrepreneurial potential. Our study, in addition to opening suggestions for further research along the same lines, presents several implications related to administrative and organizational aspects, to the design of the different pedagogical elements of the programs and to the evaluative criterion adopted.

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Restless Practices as Drivers of Purposive Institutional Change

Cited by 4 publications

References 39 publications

Restless platformance: How prosumer practices change platform markets

Restless platformance: How prosumer practices change platform markets

When Practices Control Practitioners: Integrating self-reinforcing dynamics into practice-based accounts of managing and organizing

Entrepreneurial Potential in Secondary School Students. An Exploratory Evaluation

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