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Author Gherardi, Silvia.

Title How to Conduct a Practice-based Study : Problems and Methods / Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy
Published Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2012]
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, [2012]
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Description vi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Contents: Introduction -- 1. How ordinary work is practically accomplished -- 2. Working in coordination centres -- 3. Sensible knowledge and knowledgeable bodies -- 4. Sociomaterial practices and technological environments -- 5. Learning to talk in practice and about practice -- 6. On rules, on knowing the rules and on ordinary prescription -- 7. Representing the texture of practices -- 8. Ethnography for the practice-based design of information systems -- 9. Towards a practice theory of organizing
Summary Summary: The practice-based approach to the study of work and organizing has been widely adopted in recent years, yet its theoretical and methodological systematization has only just begun. Silvia Gherardi expertly provides an overview on the topics and issues addressed by practice-based studies. By means of a series of examples drawn from the best-known analyses using this approach, the book provides methodological guidance on how to conduct empirical research on practices, and how to interpret them from three perspectives: practices 'from outside' practices 'from inside', and the social effects produced by practices
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-232) and index
Notes English
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Subject Communication in organizations.
Management information systems.
Management -- Research -- Methodology.
Organization -- Research.
Author Gherardi, Silvia.
ebrary, Inc.
LC no. 2012939098
ISBN 085793337X (hbk.)
0857933388 (ebook)
9780857933379 (cased)
9780857933386 (ebook)
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