The Emergence of an Influential Practice: Food for Thought

Gomez, Marie-Léandre; Bouty, Isabelle

doi:10.1177/0170840611407020

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“…SAP is the methodological mirror-image. Some studies have made use of statistics from surveys or archival sources (Gomez & Bouty, 2011;Hodgkinson, Whittington, Johnson, & Schwarz, 2006), but the third column in our tables shows a strong orientation toward various qualitative methods, often in single organizations. These studies have often been based on interviews, typically at many organizational levels (Mantere, 2005;Regnér, 2003).…”

Section: Distinctive Features Of Sap Researchmentioning

confidence: 93%

Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously

Vaara¹,

Whittington²

2012

The Academy of Management Annals

365

271

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This article reviews research in Strategy-as-Practice (SAP) and suggests directions for its development. The power of this perspective lies in its ability to explain how strategy-making is enabled and constrained by prevailing organizational and societal practices. Our review shows how SAP research has helped to advance social theories in strategic management, offered alternatives to performance-dominated analyzes, broadened the scope in terms of organizations studied and promoted new methodologies. In particular, it has provided important insights into the tools and methods of strategy-making (practices), how strategy work takes place (praxis), and the role and identity of the actors involved (practitioners). However, we argue that there is a need to go further in the analysis of social practices to unleash the full potential of this perspective. Hence, we outline five directions for the further development of the practice perspective: placing agency in a web of practices, recognizing the macro-institutional nature of practices, focusing attention on emergence in strategy-making, exploring how the material matters, and promoting critical analysis.

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Section: Distinctive Features Of Sap Researchmentioning

confidence: 93%

Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously

Vaara¹,

Whittington²

2012

The Academy of Management Annals

365

271

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“…Simultaneously, these practices help to structure that context (Gomez & Bouty, 2011). Habitus is, we argue, a means to complement and move beyond the insights offered by work-family balance and anticipatory socialization literatures that can help explain the decisions that professionals make in more relational terms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 91%

When the past comes back to haunt you: The enduring influence of upbringing on the work–family decisions of professional parents

2017

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Research on work-family balance decisions generally presents them as an individual's rational choice between alternatives. The anticipatory socialisation literature highlights the role that early formative experiences play in shaping work and parenting decisions. We go further to emphasise the role of habitus -historically constituted dispositions -in workfamily balance decisions. This relational approach explores how the entrenched and historically formed dispositions of individuals interact dynamically with contextual (i.e. organizational) imperatives. Numerous studies have highlighted the difficulties of reconciling the intense demands of professional careers with family lives. Drawing on 148 interviews with 78 male and female professionals, our study looks at much deeper rooted causes of work-family conflict in professional service firms than have previously been considered. We identify four broad patterns of response to the work-family conflict: professionals may willingly reproduce their parental model, reproduce their parental model against their will, willingly distance themselves from their parental model, and distance themselves from the parental model against their will. We show that the impediments to greater equality lie not only in organizational and societal structures, but within individuals themselves in the form of historically constituted dispositions which contribute towards the maintenance and reproduction of those structures.

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“…These conditions influence the number and nature of institutional demands affecting organizations in a field (Greenwood et al, 2011) and are important influencers of institutional processes. Fields have been described as highly institutionalized or structured (Gomez & Bouty, 2011;Greenwood et al, 2002;Vaccaro & Palazzo, 2015), established (Purdy & Gray, 2009), mature (Greenwood & Suddaby, 2006), hierarchical (Rao et al, 2000), emerging , nascent (Patvardhan, Gioia & Hamilton, 2015), turbulent (Farjoun, 2002), fragmented (Meyer, Scott & Strang, 1987), complex (Reay & Hinings, 2009), patchy (Quirke, 2013), or contested (Hensmans, 2003;. Highly institutionalized, or structured, fields feature "relatively well-structured configurations of actors that are aware of their involvement in a common enterprise and among which there are identifiable patterns of interaction", and in which "membership [is] clearly defined; institutions [are] highly legitimated;…”

Section: Field Conditionsmentioning

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Field or Fields? Building the Scaffolding for Cumulation of Research on Institutional Fields

Zietsma

Groenewegen

Logue

et al. 2017

ANNALS

258

263

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The concept of an institutional field is one of the cornerstones of institutional theory, and yet the concept has been stretched both theoretically and empirically, making consolidation of findings across multiple studies more difficult. In this article, we review the literature and analyze empirical studies of institutional fields to build scaffolding for the cumulation of research on institutional fields. Our review revealed two types of fields: exchange and issue fields, with three subtypes of each. We describe their characteristics. Subsequently, we review field conditions in the extant literature and develop a typology based on two dimensions: the extent of elaboration of institutional infrastructure and the extent to which there is an agreed upon prioritization of logics. We discuss the implications of field types and conditions for isomorphism, agency, and field change, based on a review of the literature that revealed six pathways of field change and the factors affecting them. We outline a research agenda based on our review highlighting the need for consolidation of field studies and identify several outstanding issues that are in need of further research.

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The Emergence of an Influential Practice: Food for Thought

Cited by 78 publications

References 67 publications

Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously

Strategy-as-Practice: Taking Social Practices Seriously

When the past comes back to haunt you: The enduring influence of upbringing on the work–family decisions of professional parents

Field or Fields? Building the Scaffolding for Cumulation of Research on Institutional Fields

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