Llewellyn, Nick and Spence, Laura (2009) Practice as a members' phenomenon. Organization Studies, Vol.30 (No.12). pp. 1419-1439. doi:10.1177/0170840609349877

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Abstract

Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this article explores the relation between practice and activity; between recruitment practice and the ordinary activities of the job interview. Job interviews are recognizably and accountably different from other interview-formats, such as broadcast news or academic research interviews. Such differences are instantly hearable because ordinary activities are built systematically so as to reveal an orientation to 'practice', distinctive purposes, entitlements, presuppositions, identities and definitions of acceptable conduct. The article illustrates analytic procedures for recovering such orientations and thus for understanding how people embed and reveal practice, with and for one another, in interaction. It is argued that the practice-turn should not overlook the fact that practice is, in the first instance, a members' phenomenon, something that members draw upon, monitor and orient to in real time interaction.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	Organization Studies
Publisher:	Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN:	0170-8406
Official Date:	December 2009
Dates:	Date Event December 2009 Published
Volume:	Vol.30
Number:	No.12
Number of Pages:	21
Page Range:	pp. 1419-1439
DOI:	10.1177/0170840609349877
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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