Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders
主张组织理论应更深入地理解工作和职业,通过分析居住制度、作为制度的职业和作为协商秩序的职业,探讨这些方法如何挑战抽象的组织形象,并强调工作实践、互动、解释和意义的重要性。
In this essay I argue that organizational theorizing would benefit from incorporating a richer understanding of work and occupations. To demonstrate how, I turn to recent literature analyzing inhabited institutions, occupations as institutions, and occupations as negotiated orders. I explore the theoretical and methodological implications of these approaches to show how they challenge some of our more abstract images of organizations. They do so by grounding their theoretical frameworks in work practices and interaction, interpretation and meaning, and understandings of occupational membership.