Why do we keep on meeting like this? The board as ritual in health and social care

Peck, Edward; Six, Perri; Gulliver, Pauline; Towell, David

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“…Simon 1997); albeit not a very effective tool. In contrast to this instrumental view, recent studies have drawn attention to the role of meetings as routinized social practices that serve to stabilize the wider social system of which they are part (Peck et al 2004). Much of this research comes from political studies, analysing the role of meetings in the public policy-making process.…”

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The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy

Jarzabkowski

Seidl²

2008

Organization Studies

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. ABSTRACT This paper addresses the recent turn in strategy research to practice-based theorizing. Based on a data set of 51 meeting observations, the paper examines how strategy meetings are involved in either stabilizing existing strategic orientations or proposing variations that cumulatively generate change in strategic orientations. Eleven significant structuring characteristics of strategy meetings are identified and examined with regard to their potential for stabilizing or destabilizing existing strategic orientations. Based on a taxonomy of meeting structures, we explain three typical evolutionary paths through which variations emerge, are maintained and developed, and are selected or de-selected. The findings make four main contributions. First, they contribute to the literature on strategy-as-practice by explaining how the practice of meetings is related to consequential strategic outcomes. Second, they contribute to the literature on organizational becoming by demonstrating the role of meetings in shaping stability and change. Third, they extend and elaborate the concept of meetings as strategic episodes. Fourth, they contribute to the literature on garbage can models of strategy-making. Permanent repository link:Keywords: Strategy-as-practice, strategy meetings, university, strategy episodes, strategizing. 1 The authors would like to thank colleagues, Richard Whittington and John Sillince, for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper and the three anonymous reviewers and the Senior Editor, Ann Langley, for their enormous help with developing this published version of the paper. Jarzabkowski, P. & D. . 'The role of strategy meetings in the social practice of strategy '. Organization Studies, 29.11: 1391-1426 1 The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of StrategyWith its recent turn towards practice-based theorizing (Balogun et al. 2007;Hendry 2000;Jarzabkowski 2005;Johnson et al. 2003;Whittington 1996;2006) strategy research has developed a particular interest in the everyday activities of strategy practitioners. Strategy, it is argued, may be understood as something people do rather than something that firms-in-their markets have. While Johnson et al. (2003) proposed a focus on the everyday micro-activities through which actors shape strategic outcomes, others emphasize that these micro-phenomena need to be understood within their social context. Actors do not act in isolation but draw upon regular, socially defined modes of acting that make their actions and interactions meaningful to others (Balogun et al. 2007;Chia and Mackay 2007;Suchman 1986;Wilson and Jarzabkowski 2004;Whittington 2006). We must thus look to those social structures, such as tools, technologies and discourses, through which micro actions are constructed and which, in turn, construct the possibilities for action (Giddens 1984;Orlikowski 1996). Strategy-as-practice has, therefore, been conceptualized "as...

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Section: Research On Meetingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy

Jarzabkowski

Seidl²

2008

Organization Studies

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“…60 one classic example is the Tennessee Valley Authority's formal co-optation program of the grassroots, or "democratic planning," whose aspiration was to 53 Ibid., p. 16, citing James Corey. 54 Peck et al 2004. 55 Brannen et al 1976, p. 175.…”

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Ritual Deliberation

Tanasoca

Sass

2019

J Political Philosophy

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“…The same mechanisms operate in weakly integrated forms (Goffman ) as in the strongly integrated cases that Durkheim studied. Styles are ritually cultivated in the interaction order of daily business in meetings (Schwartzman ; Peck et al ), for example among ministers and civil servants (6 ), as much as in acquaintances' casual conversations (Goffman ).…”

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How ‘Natives’ Work: Political Judgement and Cohesion Through Ritual Interaction Among Ministers

Perri

2015

Public Administration

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How do political administrations sustain whatever kinds of cohesion they do, over their time in office? Although recent research emphasizes institutions, sometimes institutions also weaken cohesion. Informal institutions are more important than formal ones in shaping styles of political judgement in governing administrations. But how can institutional processes explain both weakening and strengthening? This article develops a neo‐Durkheimian theory. It proposes that informal institutions should be understood as operating through very particular kinds of practices, which are enacted in a limited number of basic kinds of ritual interaction order. The article innovates by showing how written ritual in government interacts with face‐to‐face ritual in cultivating styles both of thought and of emotions to sustain positive and negative feedback dynamics. The argument is illustrated by analysing negative rites of blame and accusation and positive rites of self‐assertion during positive feedback in the individualistic interaction order in Harold Wilson's 1960s Cabinet.

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Why do we keep on meeting like this? The board as ritual in health and social care

Cited by 31 publications

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The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy

The Role of Meetings in the Social Practice of Strategy

Ritual Deliberation

How ‘Natives’ Work: Political Judgement and Cohesion Through Ritual Interaction Among Ministers

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