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Standing Working Group 6 – Sub-theme 06:

Practice-Based Studies of Knowledge and Innovation in Workplaces –
Practices that Upset and Upsetting Practices

 

Convenors:

Silvia Gherardi
University of Trento (Italy)
silvia.gherardi@soc.unitn.it

Anni Borzeix
Centre de Recherche en Gestion de l'Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS (France)
anni.borzeix@shs.polytechnique.fr

Lars Fuglsang
Roskilde University (Denmark)
fuglsang@ruc.dk

 

Session I: Thursday, July 10 – 11:00–12:30
Introduction

Silvia Gherardi, Anni Borzeix and Lars Fuglsang
Introduction

Gail Greig, Paolo Landri, Davide Nicolini, Kjersti Björkeng, Marc Barbier, Marie Hemming and Poul Bitsch Olsen
Dispatch technique and research on virtue
 

Session II: Thursday, July 10 – 14:00–15:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Knowing in Practice

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Chair: Marie-Léandre Gomez

Julie Labatut, Franck Aggeri and Nathalie Girard
When animals' breeding practices meet science. The interplay between technology-embedded knowledge and knowing in a heterogeneous organizational context

Anna Johnsson
Shadowing best practices – Observing the useful ones: Knowing in practice at IKEA Japan

Xavier Weppe
Coordination processes and knowing practices in a project team

Marie-Léandre Gomez
Knowing in practice: Exploring the role of symbolic violence

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Parallel Stream B: Emotions and Feelings

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Chair: Georg Schreyögg

Dorthe Eide
Breakdowns and Emotions in Learning: Case HRM innovation to reduce long-term sick leave

Georg Schreyögg and Nicolas Rohde
Hated practices – Studies on the lifecycle of disliked practices

Diane Skinner
Upsetting hierarchy through an aesthetics of existence: Ethical practices at a self-managing community

Sanna Laulainen and Karin Filander
Emotions, agency and upsetting practices in the cross-light of strategic talk
 

Session III: Friday, July 11 – 9:00–10:30
Dark Sides

Chair: Daniel Geiger

John S. Ash and Clive Smallman
Decision making practice in emergency rescues: Good reasons for bad practices?

Konstantinos Kakavelakis and Tim Edwards
Understanding the maintenance of a community of practice: Relational approach

Gessica Corradi and Luca Verzelloni
The affirmation process of practice-based studies: A game of lights and shadows

Daniel Geiger
Good or bad practice? A Habermasian perspective on the dark side of practices
 

Session IV: Friday, July 11 – 14:00–15:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Communities of Practice

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Chair: Régine Teulier

Karl-Heinz Pogner
Paradise lost or paradise still to be found? Theory and practice of discourse communities and communities of practice

Robin Burrow
Telemarketing in a UK call centre

Kasia Zdunczyk
Constructing community boundaries through perspective-pushing practices

Florence Charue-Duboc, Thomas Paris and Régine Teulier
The strategic dimension of communities of practice

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Parallel Stream B: Self and Identy

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Chair: Manuela Nocker

Manuela O. Nocker
On 'being professional': Responsibility, identity, and the work of imagination

Aurélien Lamy
Narratives: Inquiry into the dark side of practices?

Cathy Greenhalgh
Moralities and hidden practices of the film crew
 

Session V: Friday, July 11 – 16:15–17:45
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Upsetting and Disintegrating Practice

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Chair: Lesley Treleaven

Isabelle Mahy
Between ethnography and organisational stardom glorification – A researcher's journey against censorship

Caroline Ramsey
Relational grooves, conversational trajectories and the practiced loss of intention

Lesley Treleaven and Lynne Keevers
Generously upsetting dominant practices: A study of disruptive organisational capacity building

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Parallel Stream B: Cooperation and Coordination

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Chair: Alexander Styhre

Alexander Styhre
Tinkering with material resources: Operating under ambiguous conditions in rock construction work

Erik Axel and Poul Bitsch Olsen
How do we assert a difference between cooperation and collaboration?

Silvio Ripamonti, Mara Gorli and Giuseppe Scaratti
Local knowledge, knowledge creation processes and work practices: How to make them visible and usable for opposing inertia and change resistance

Keith Munkejord
Working in a puzzle zone: The struggle of collective coordination and problem solving using multiple media
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 12 – 9:00–10:30
– Parallel Sessions –

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Parallel Stream A: Classifications and Representations

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Chair: Paolo Landri

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas
A cultural approach to disrupting the emancipatory narrative and creating resources for change practice: The use of stories, impressionistic writing and anecdotal theory

Paolo Landri
Tracking. The 'dirty work' of schools

Serghini Idrissi Aicha
Good performance or good acting: Performing individual performance

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Parallel Stream B: Transgression and Conflict

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Chair: Nick Llewellyn

Charlotte Fillol
Transgressive and submissive practices in a nuclear power plant: Why and how does organizations allow and facilitate it?

Demola Obembe
Understanding individual action: When employees contravene management directives to foster knowledge sharing

Nick Llewellyn
Situating time: An ethnomethodologically informed analysis of work practice and temporal reasoning

Tea Lempiälä
How do ideas get killed and feelings hurt? Examining detrimental social practices for group ideation
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 12 – 11:15–12:45
Rule and Rule-Breaking

Chair: Marc Barbier

Johann C. Weichbrodt and Gudela Grote
Rules and rule-breaking in a high-reliability organization – Are bad practices necessary?

Marc Barbier
The managerial phenomenon or the collective experience of the rationalization of undergone autonomy in organizations

Karen D.W. Patterson and Ellen T. Crumley
Stirring up fields: The suppression of chiropractic, acupuncture and nanotechnology

 

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