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Gorli, Mara, Nicolini, Davide and Scaratti, Giuseppe (2015) Reflexivity in practice : tools and conditions for developing organizational authorship. Human Relations, 68 (8). pp. 1347-1375. doi:10.1177/0018726714556156 ISSN 0018-7267.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726714556156
Abstract
In this article, we build on the results of a participatory action research project in healthcare to discuss a number of methods that can strengthen the link between reflexive work and authoring in organizational contexts. We argue that, from an organizational point of view, the challenge is to devise new ways to configure (and consider) people as the authors of their work. This means assuming responsibility for, and constructively contributing to, the goals of the organizations to which they belong. Combining insights from theoretical reflection and experience from the field, the article discusses the tools, process and material conditions for fostering practical reflexivity and organizational authorship. We conclude that much is to be gained if we distinguish between authorship and authoring. Authorship is the general process whereby managers and organizational members contribute to the reproduction of organizational realities. Authoring is constituted by the special circumstances whereby authorship is brought to critical consciousness and becomes open to deliberate reorientation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Organizational change | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0018-7267 | ||||||||
Official Date: | August 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 68 | ||||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 29 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1347-1375 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0018726714556156 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 December 2015 |
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