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Monteiro, Pedro do Nascimento and Nicolini, Davide (2015) Recovering materiality in institutional work : prizes as an assemblage of human and material entities. Journal of Management Inquiry, Volume 24 (Number 1). pp. 61-81. doi:10.1177/1056492614546221 ISSN 1056-4926.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1056492614546221
Abstract
In this article we utilize a (posthumanist) practice theory orientation to foreground the neglected role of material elements (e.g., objects and spaces) in institutional work. The paper builds on the results of an empirical study of two prizes in the Italian public sector for best practices in public administration and healthcare respectively. Our discussion centres on the critical role played by materiality in the legitimizing work performed by the two prizes. More specifically, we show that humans and material elements share the institutional work of mimicry, theorizing, educating, and reconfiguring normative networks. The article expands and enriches the notion of institutional work by foregrounding its inherent heterogeneous nature. It also shows the capacity of post-humanist and practice oriented approaches to shed new light on fundamental questions regarding the nature of situated action and distributed effort in institutional analysis.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
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): | Work environment, Work -- Physiological aspects | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Management Inquiry | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1056-4926 | ||||||||
Official Date: | January 2015 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 24 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 20 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 61-81 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1056492614546221 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 December 2015 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 December 2015 |
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