Revisiting the Concept of Practice: Toward an Argumentative Understanding of Practicing
批判性回顾了组织分析中基于实践的研究方法，指出将实践简单理解为“行为者做什么”缺乏批判力，而认识论-规范性概念则开辟了非认知、非实证、非理性主义的路径。为理解组织实践（尤其在崩溃和伦理冲突时），引入哈贝马斯的实践概念，区分遵循叙事沟通的生活世界实践与本质为论证性的话语。
In recent years, the topic of organizational practices has come to the fore in organization studies. A practice perspective is meant to provide a new method for studying organizations beyond the formal, quantifiable and abstract. But despite, or because of, its prominence the concept of practice has been used in a variety of ways and to evoke different associations. This article is intended to critically review the current approaches of practice-based studies in organizational analysis. The discussion shows that approaches that understand practice simply as `what actors do' are not unfolding much critical power in organization studies, as opposed to epistemic-normative conceptions of practice which open a non-cognitive, non-positivist and non-rationalist avenue in organizational analysis. In order to enrich our understanding of practices in organizations—particularly in circumstances of breakdowns and conflicting ethical values—a Habermasian conception of practice is introduced which distinguishes between life-world practices following a narrative mode of communication and discourses which are argumentative in nature.