ISBN:
1283834901
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9781283834902
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9780191644627
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 272 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
MyiLibrary
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nicolini, Davide Practice theory, work, and organization
DDC:
306.36072
Keywords:
Organization Research
;
Methodology
;
Organization Research
;
Methodology
;
Case studies
;
Work Research
;
Methodology
;
Work Research
;
Methodology
;
Case studies
;
Organizational sociology
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Social sciences
;
Electronic books
;
Soziologie*Wirtschaft*Betriebswirtschaft*Management*Theorie der Praxis
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Handlungstheorie
;
Organisationsforschung
;
Arbeitswissenschaft
;
Soziologie
;
Methodologie
Abstract:
This book is a rigorous yet accessible introduction to contemporary practice theories, discussing their distinctive contribution to the study of work and organizations. It surveys their origins, theoretical assumptions, concepts, and application.
Abstract:
Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What is new? The affordance of practice theories -- 1.2 There is no such a thing as a unified practice theory -- 1.3 Practice theories and the study of work and organization -- 1.3.1 Returning to practice: a weak and strong programme? -- 1.4 The content and structure of the book -- 1.5 The rolling case study -- 1.5.1 What is telemedicine? -- 1.5.2 What is chronic heart failure? -- 1.5.3 Telemonitoring at Garibaldi -- 1.6 Words of thanks -- 2 Praxis and Practice Theory: A Brief Historical Overview -- 2.1 The legacy of Greek classical thought and the demotion of practice in the Western tradition -- 2.1.1 Plato's intellectualist legacy -- 2.1.2 Aristotle on praxis -- 2.2 The demotion of practice in the Western tradition -- 2.3 The rediscovery of practice: Marx, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein -- 2.3.1 Marx -- 2.3.2 Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the primacy of practice in the phenomenological tradition -- 2.3.3 Wittgenstein: intelligibility as practice -- 2.3.4 The return of practice in contemporary social thought -- 3 Praxeology and the Work of Giddens and Bourdieu -- 3.1 Giddens: practice as the basic domain of study of the social sciences -- 3.1.1 Giddens' view of practice -- 3.1.2 Giddens at work -- 3.2 Bourdieu's praxeology: an overview -- 3.2.1 On habitus -- 3.2.2 How habitus produces practice -- 3.2.3 Theorizing practice -- 3.2.4 Bourdieu's praxeology and the study of work and organization -- Rolling case study: Telemedicine and the nursing habitus -- 4 Practice as Tradition and Community -- 4.1 Practice, tradition, and learning -- 4.2 Practice and community -- 4.3 Withdrawing the phrase 'community of practice'? -- Rolling case study: Becoming part of the practice of telemedicine -- 5 Practice as Activity -- 5.1 The Marxian roots of cultural historical activity theory.
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