Resources in Emerging Structures and Processes of Change

Martha S. Feldman ()
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Martha S. Feldman: Department of Planning, Policy, and Design, 226G Social Ecology I, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-7075

Organization Science, 2004, vol. 15, issue 3, 295-309

Abstract: In this paper I argue that understanding resources through a social practice perspective enables us to understand more about the role of resources in change. In particular, social practice theory enables us to view resources in context as mutable sources of energy rather than as stable things that are independent of context, and to analyze the reciprocal relationship between actions and resources as they change. This approach to understanding resources requires an elaboration on current social practice theory and provides a new way to understand organizational change. This perspective is used to show how resources transform in unexpected ways as a result of change in organizational routines and how this transformation of resources makes resistance to change difficult to predict.

Keywords: resources; organizational change; structuration theory; resistance; practice theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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