Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders
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Title
Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders
Abstract/Description
In this essay I argue that organizational theorizing would benefit from incorporating a richer understanding of work and occupations. To demonstrate how, I turn to recent literature analyzing inhabited institutions, occupations as institutions, and occupations as negotiated orders. I explore the theoretical and methodological implications of these approaches to show how they challenge some of our more abstract images of organizations. They do so by grounding their theoretical frameworks in work practices and interaction, interpretation and meaning, and understandings of occupational membership.
Author/creator
Date
In publication
Volume
22
Issue
5
Pages
1157-1167
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Theoretical
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
1047-7039
Citation
Bechky, B. A. (2011). Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders. Organization Science, 22(5), 1157–1167. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0603
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