The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences. This double-volume builds directly on the scholarship of Theodore Schatzki and Roger Friedland, to map out new theoretical and empirical directions at the interface between the practice and...

The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences. This double-volume builds directly on the scholarship of Theodore Schatzki and Roger Friedland, to map out new theoretical and empirical directions at the interface between the practice and...

This volume is motivated by key questions and challenges associated with reviving and developing a comparative perspective. One organizing theme of the volume is to present comparative analysis as a means to explain and describe organizational heterogeneity, at varying levels and contexts. While...

The insight that institutions, and the communicative practices that create, sustain, and challenge them, are multimodal accomplishments has garnered increasing attention from scholars in organization and management research over the last decade. Traditional understanding of social knowledge and...

The insight that institutions, and the communicative practices that create, sustain, and challenge them, are multimodal accomplishments has garnered increasing attention from scholars in organization and management research over the last decade. Traditional understanding of social knowledge and...

As organizational scholars, we are accustomed to using theoretical lenses to understand organizational practices and outcomes. That is, we conceptualize what people do, feel and think in their everyday organizational interactions through the use of theoretical language and models to uncover...

Vorwort -- Abbildungs- und Tabellenverzeichnis -- 1. Organisation und Kooperation -- 2. Geschichte, Theorien und Moden -- 3. Gestaltung I: Organisationsstrukturen -- 4. Gestaltung II: Organisationsprozesse -- 5. Gestaltung III: Projektorganisation -- 6. Beratung I: Ansätze der...

1. Einleitung -- Einführung in die wesentliche Problematik -- Bisheriger Wissens- und Forschungsstand zum Thema -- Gang der Untersuchung 2. Untersuchung grundlegender Wissenschaften zu Organisations- und Prozesstheorien -- Grundsatzüberlegungen -- Organisationstheoretische Grundlagen --...