Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders

Beth A. Bechky ()
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Beth A. Bechky: Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616

Organization Science, 2011, vol. 22, issue 5, 1157-1167

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: work; occupations; institutions; professions; negotiated order (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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