Practice as the site of knowing: Insights from the field of telemedicine

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 602-620

  Nicolini, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action net; Actor network theory; Knowing; Network of practice; Organizational knowledge; Organizing practices; Telemedicine; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959264508     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0556     Document Type: Article

References (90)

1. Antonacopulou, E. 2004. The dynamics of reflexive practice: The relationship between learning and changing. R. Vince, M. Reynolds, eds. Organizing Reflection Ashgate. Aldershot, UK, 47-64.
2. Bateson, G. 1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. University Of Chicago Press, Chicago.
3. Bechky, B. A. 2003. Sharing meaning across occupational communities: The transformation of understanding on a production floor. Organ. Sci. 14(3) 312-330.
4. Bechky, B. A. 2006. Gaffers, gofers, and grips: Role-based coordination in temporary organizations. Organ. Sci. 17(1) 3-21.
5. Black, L., P. Carlile, N. Repenning. 2004. A dynamic theory of expertise and occupational boundaries in new technology implementation: Building on Barley's study of CT scanning. Admin. Sci. Quart. 49(4) 572-607.
6. Blackler, F. 1995. Knowledge, knowledge work and organizations: An overview and interpretation. Organ. Stud. 16(6) 1021-1046.
7. Bourdieu, P. 1990. The Logic of Practice. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK.
8. Bowen, G. A. 2008. Naturalistic inquiry and the saturation concept: A research note. Qualitative Res. 8(1) 137-152.
9. Brown, J. S., P. Duguid. 1991. Organizational learning and communities of practice: Toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation. Organ. Sci. 2(1) 40-57.
10. Brown, J. S., P. Duguid. 2001. Knowledge and organization: A social practice perspective. Organ. Sci. 12(2) 198-213.
11. Brown, J. S., P. Duguid. 2002. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, MA.
12. Carlile, P. R. 2002. A pragmatic view of knowledge and boundaries: Boundary objects in new product development. Organ. Sci. 13(4) 442-455.
13. Chaiklin, S., J. Lave, eds. 1993. Understanding Practice. Perspectives on Activity and Context. Cambridge University Press, New York.
14. Chia, R., R. Holt. 2006. Strategy as practical coping: A Heideggerian perspective. Organ. Stud. 27(5) 635-655.
15. Chia, R., R. Holt. 2008. On managerial knowledge. Management Learn. 39(2) 141-158.
16. Contu, A., H. Willmott. 2003. Re-embedding situatedness: The importance of power relations in learning theory. Organ. Sci. 14(3) 283-296.
17. Cook, S. D., J. S. Brown. 1999. Bridging epistemologies: The generative dance between organizational knowledge and organizational knowing. Organ. Sci. 10(4) 381-400.
18. Cook, S. D., D. Yanow. 1993. Culture and organizational learning. J. Management Inquiry 2(4) 373-390.
19. Cooper, R. 2005. Relationality. Organ. Stud. 26(11) 1689-1710.
20. Czarniawska, B. 2000. Organizational translations. M. Kalthoff, R. Rottenburg, H.-J. Wagener, eds. Facts and Figures: Economic Representations and Practices. Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg, Germany.
21. Czarniawska, B., T. Hernes, eds. 2005. Actor-Network Theory and Organizing. Liber and Copenhagen Business School Press, Copenhagen.
22. Daniels, H. 1996. Introduction. H. Daniels, ed. An Introduction to Vygotsky. Routledge, London, 1-32.
23. Dreyfus, H. 1989. Alternative philosophical conceptualizations of psychopathology. H. A. Durfee, D. Rodier, eds. Phenomenology and Beyond: The Self and Its Language. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 41-50.
24. Dreyfus, H. 2005. Can there be a better source of meaning than everyday practices? Reinterpreting division Iof Being and Time in the light of division II. R. Polt, ed. Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD, 141-154.
25. Engeström, Y. 2000. Activity theory as a framework for analysing and redesigning work. Ergonomics 43(7) 960-974.
26. Engeström, Y. 2001. Expansive learning at work: Toward an activity theoretical reconceptualization. J. Ed. Work 14(11) 33-56.
27. Engeström, Y, F. Blackler. 2005. On the life of the object. Organ. 12(3) 307-330.
28. Engeström, Y., D. Middleton, eds. 1996. Cognition and Communication at Work. Cambridge University Press, New York.
29. Engeström, Y., R. Miettinen, R.-L. Punamäki, eds. 1999. Perspectives on Activity Theory. Cambridge University Press, New York.
30. Feldman, M. 2000. Organizational routines as a source of continuous change. Organ. Sci. 11(6) 611-629.
31. Feldman, M. S., B. T. Pentland. 2003. Reconceptualizing organizational routines as a source of flexibility and change. Admin. Sci. Quart. 48(1) 94-118.
32. Foucault, M. 1979. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, UK.
33. Foucault, M. 1982. The subject and power. H. L. Dreyfus, P. Rabinow, eds. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 208-226.
34. Garfinkel, H. 1967. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
35. Gherardi, S. 2001. From organizational learning to practice-based knowing. Human Relations 54(1) 131-139.
36. Gherardi, S. 2006. Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning. Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
37. Gherardi, S., D. Nicolini. 2002. Learning in a constellation of interconnected practices: Canon or dissonance? J. Management Stud. 39(4) 419-436.
38. Gubrium, J., J. A. Holstein. 1997. The New Language of Qualitative Method. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
39. Handley, K., A. Sturdy, R. Fincham, T. Clarke. 2006. Within and beyond communities of practice. J. Management Stud. 43(3) 641-53.
40. Harvey, D. 1996. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
41. Heidegger, M. 1929. Being and Time. Translated by Joan Stambaugh. SUNY Press, Albany, NY.
42. Henke, C. 2000. The mechanics of workplace order: Toward a sociology of repair. Berkeley J. Sociol. 44 55-81.
43. Hutchins, E. 1995. Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
44. James, W. 1978. Pragmatism and the Meaning of Truth. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. [Orig. pub. 1907.]
45. Knights, D., H. Wilmott, eds. 1990. Labour Process Theory. MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK.
46. Laclau, E., C. Mouffe. 2001. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics, 2nd ed. Verso, London.
47. Latour, B. 2005. Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
48. Lave, J. 1988. Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press, New York.
49. Lave, J., E. Wenger. 1991. Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge University Press, New York.
50. Law, J. 1987. Technology and heterogeneous engineering. The case of Portuguese expansion. W. E. Bijker, T. P. Hughes, T. Pinch, eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems. New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 111-134.
51. Lawrence, T. B., R. Suddaby. 2006. Institutions and institutional work. S. Clegg, C. Hardy, T. B. Lawrence, W. R. Nord, eds. Sage Handbook of Organization Studies, 2nd ed. Sage, London, 215-254.
52. Lindberg, K., B. Czarniawska. 2006. Knotting the action net, or organizing between organizations. Scand. J. Management 22(4) 292-306.
53. Lindkvist, L. 2005. Knowledge communities and knowledge collectivities: A typology of knowledge work in groups. J. Management Stud. 42(6) 1189-1210.
54. Llewellyn, N. 2008. Organization in actual episodes of work: Harvey Sacks and organization studies. Organ. Stud. 29(5) 763-791.
55. Llewellyn, N., J. Hindmarsh, eds. 2009. Organization, Interaction and Practice: Studies of Real Time Work and Organising. Cambridge University Press, New York.
56. Lounsbury, M. 2008. Institutional rationality and practice variation: New directions in the institutional analysis of practice. Accounting, Organ. Soc. 33(4-5) 349-361.
57. Lynch, M. 2001. Ethnomethodology and the logic of practice. T. Schatzki, K. Knorr Cetina, E. Von Savigny, eds. The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory. Routledge, London, 131-148.
58. Martin, P. Y. 2004. "Said and done" versus "saying and doing": Gendering practices, practicing gender at work. Gender Soc. 17(3) 342-366.
59. Nicolini, D. 2007. Stretching out and expanding medical practices. The case of telemedicine. Human Relations 60(6) 889-920.
60. Nicolini, D. 2009a. Articulating and writing practice through the interview to the double. Management Learn. 40(2) 195-212.
61. Nicolini, D. 2009b. Zooming in and out: Studying practices by switching theoretical lenses and trailing connections. Organ. Stud. 30(12) 1391-1348.
62. Nicolini, D., S. Gherardi, D. Yanow. 2003. Introduction. D. Nicolini, S. Gherardi, D. Yanow, eds. Knowing in Organizations: A Practice-Based Approach. ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 3-31.
63. Orlikowski, W. 1992. The duality of technology: Rethinking the concept of technology in organizations. Organ. Sci. 3(3) 398-427.
64. Orlikowski, W. 2002. Knowing in practice: Enacting a collective capability in distributed organizing. Organ. Sci. 13(3) 249-273.
65. Orr, J. 1996. Talking About Machines: Ethnography of a Modern Job. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.
66. Østerlund, C., P. Carlile. 2003. How practice matters: A relational view on knowledge sharing. M. Huysman, V. Wulf, eds. Communities and Technologies. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1-22.
67. Pentland, B. T., M. S. Feldman. 2005. Organizational routines as a unit of analysis. Indust. Corporate Change 14(5) 793-815.
68. Pritchard, C., R. Hull, M. Chumer, H. Willmott, eds. 2000. Managing Knowledge: Critical Investigations of Work and Learning. Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.
69. Rorty, R. 1979. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
70. Samra-Fredericks, D. 2005. Strategic practice, "discourse" and the everyday interactional constitution of "power effects." Organization 12(6) 803-841.
71. Schatzki, T. 2005. The sites of organizations. Organ. Stud. 26(3) 465-484.
72. Schatzki, T. R. 2001. Introduction: Practice theory. T. R. Schatzki, K. Knorr-Cetina, E. von Savigny, eds. The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory. Routledge, London, 1-14.
73. Schatzki, T. R. 2002. The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Exploration of the Constitution of Social Life and Change. Penn State University Press, University Park, PA.
74. Star, S. L., J. R. Griesemer. 1989. Institutional ecology, "translations," and coherence: Amateurs and professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Soc. Stud. Sci. 19(3) 387-420.
75. Suchman, L. 2007. Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. Cambridge University Press, New York.
76. Swan, J., H. Scarbrough. 2005. The politics of networked innovation. Human Relations 58(7) 913-943.
77. Taylor, J. R., D. Robichaud. 2004. Finding the organization in the communication: Discourse as action and sensemaking. Organization 11(3) 395-413.
78. Tsoukas, H. 2005. Complex Knowledge: Studies in Organizational Epistemology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
79. Turner, S. 1994. The Social Theory of Practices: Tradition, Tacit Knowledge, and Presuppositions. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK.
80. Vygotsky, L. 1978. Mind in Society. The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. [Orig. pub. 1934.]
81. Weick, K. E. 1979. The Social Psychology of Organizing, 2nd ed. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
82. Weick, K. E. 1995. Sensemaking in Organizations. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
83. Weick, K. E., K. Roberts. 1993. Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks. Admin. Sci. Quart. 38(3) 357-381.
84. Weick, K., K. M. Sutcliffe, D. Obstfeld. 2005. Organizing and the process of sensemaking. Organ. Sci. 16(4) 409-412.
85. Wenger, E. 1998. Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. Cambridge University Press, New York.
86. Wertsch, J. V., P. del Rio, A. Alvarez, eds. 1995. Sociocultural Studies of Mind. Cambridge University Press, New York.
87. Wittgenstein, L. 1953. Philosophical Investigations. Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
88. Yanow, D. 2000. Seeing organizational learning: A "cultural" view. Organization 7(2) 247-268.
89. Yanow, D., P. Schwartz-Shea. 2006. Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn. ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY.
90. Zilber, T. B. 2002. Institutionalization as an interplay between actions, meanings and actors: The case of a rape crisis center in Israel. Acad. Management J. 45(1) 234-254.