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Sub-theme 06 (SWG)

Practice-based Studies of Knowledge and Innovation in Workplaces:
The Waltz of Practice and Practicing


Convenors:

Silvia Gherardi
Università di Trento, Italy

 
Wanda Orlikowski
MIT Sloan School, USA
Maria Bonnafous-Boucher
Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, France

 

Session I: Thursday, July 5 – 11:00–12:30

Room D.205, Building UZA IV

Chairs: Silvia Gherardi, Maria Bonnafous-Boucher and Wanda Orlikowski

Maria Bonnafous-Boucher
Introduction

Kjersti Bjorkeng, Stewart Clegg and Tyrone Pitsis
Catching memes: Emerging practices in an alliance program

Tor Hernes and Kajsa Lindberg
How actions connect into practices: Episodes among gem traders, terrorists, soldiers, and foreign exchange traders

Evangelia Baralou and Haridimos Tsoukas
How is organizational knowledge created in virtual teams?
 

Session II: Thursday, July 5 – 14:00–15:30
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Parallel Stream A: Contradiction, Context, and Complexity

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Chair: Silvia Gherardi

Gail Greig
Ceilidh or ballroom: It's still waltzing – Context as choreography in the waltz of primary healthcare

Carole Groleau, Christiane Demers and Marcos Barros
From waltzing to breakdancing: Introducing contradiction in practice-based studies of innovation and change

Dorothy Sutherland Olsen
Emergence of common practice: Overcoming disciplinary diversity to build nanoractors

Hannele Kerosuo, Klaus-Peter Schulz and Anu Kajamaa
Reflexive interventions as means for knowledge-creation and innovation in complex and diversified work practices

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Parallel Stream B: Mediating Practices

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Chair: Wanda Orlikowski

Kristine Dery and Judith MacCormick
Who takes the lead? A study of the impact of BlackBerrys on the organizational dancefloor

Christian Licoppe and Caroline Datchary
Multi-activity in complex informational ecologies

Anne-Laure Fayard and Anca Metiu
Beyond orality and literacy: Letters and online interactions

Keith Munkejord
Reflexivity in practice: Methodological reflections on multiple media use in organizations
 

Session III: Friday, July 6 – 9:00–10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Knowledge, Coordination and Work Practices

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Chair: Haridimos Tsoukas

Lynne Keevers and Lesley Treleaven
Waltzing Matilda: Reflecting in/on the hot action of practice

Anna Jonsson
The learning paradox: An observation of knowledge sharing at IKEA Japan

Vicenzo D'Andrea, Stefano De Paoli and Maurizio Teli
Grokking computer programs: How science fiction participates in hackers' practices

Emmanouil Gkeredakis and Jason Ferdinand
Orchestrating without considering tone, colours and registers? Rethinking coordination research

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Parallel Stream B: Performing Practices

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Chair: Davide Nicolini

Jon Hindmarsh
Real-time studies of embodied work practice: Organization in clinical dental training

Manuela Perrotta
Practices of reproduction and reproduction of practices

Nina Kivinen
Singing the word of God: Performing sacred music

Eric Axel, Lars Fuglsang and Poul Bitsch Olsen
Practicing ethics
 

Session IV: Friday, July 6 – 11:00–12:30
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Parallel Stream A: Change in Practices

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Chair: Anca Metiu

Frédéric Leroy and Thomas Paris
Knowledge and practices in a gastronomy restaurant: Ballet, waltz, pogo and tango …

Grete Håkonsen
In search of ideas worth doing: Practice as the dual process of change and stabilization

Lisen Selander
When doves cry: Employee cynicism from dissonance to harmony

Richard Badham and Amanda Mead
Change meetings: Learning to waltz with multiple partners

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Parallel Stream B: Representations in/of Practice

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Chair: Maria Bonnafous-Boucher

Jennifer Whyte, Boris Ewenstein, Mike Hales and Joe Tidd
Knowledge and innovation through visual practices

Charles-Clemens Rüling and Raffi Duymedijian
Technological innovation and regimes of action: Bricolage in movie special effects

Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini and Florence Charue-Duboc
A practice-based analysis of technological strategy formulation: The case of a working group structured to explore a new 'domain of innovation' in a multi-divisional firm

Rosemary Doyle
Doing, describing and documenting: Inscription and practice in social work
 

Session V: Friday, July 6 – 13:45–15:15
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Parallel Stream A: Methodology

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Chair: Anne-Laure Fayard

Davide Nicolini
Using the 'interview to the double' as a technique for eliciting and re-presenting practice:
Strengths and limitations

Clive Smallman
Bourdieu's cat: On data indeterminancy in the study of organizational practice

Frédérique Allard and Nathalie Couix
The learning of collaboration in complex situations: Which methodology of investigation?

Francesca Gennai
How to study organizational practices: Suggestions coming from the art

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Parallel Stream B: Power, Legitimacy, and Temporal-Spatiality

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Chair: Stewart Clegg

Attila Bruni
'I am not a sadist … I am a master … I love organization …': or, what can practice based studies learn from sado-masochism?

Israel Drori and Benson Honig
Understanding external and internal legitimacy during the life cycle of a dot.com: A case in the theory of practice

Luc Audebrand
Gazing the prose of everyday strategizing: Dialogue between 'chronotopes' in everyday practices/practicing

Giovanni Arata
Organizational canovaccios: Displaying on stage the relationship between emergent practice and crystallized patterns of the courts
 

Session VI: Saturday, July 7 – 9:00–10:30
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Parallel Stream A: Identity, Autonomy, and Aging

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Chair: Gail Greig

Damiano Russo, Maria Rita Tagliaventi and Elisa Mattarelli
Professional identity, individual work practices, and patterns of interaction in a research organization

Nicholas Rohde and Jonas Sprogøe
Learning induction in practice: The generative dance between newcomers and organizations

Polina Isichenko and Sven Voelpel
Exploring differences in innovative behaviors of employees: Drivers of the differences across age cohorts

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Parallel Stream B: Practicing

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Chair: Gerhard Smid

Paolo Landri
Passion and detachment: Modes of attachment in organizations

Luca Verzelloni
Practicing and harmonizing

Kristian Kreiner
Constructing the client in architectural competitions: An ethnographic study of revealed strategies

Marc Barbier
Practices and practicing the declaration of disease: The subjectivation of 'dispotif' of biopolitics
 

Session VII: Saturday, July 7 – 11:00–12:30
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Parallel Stream A: Innovation and Learning

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Chair: Kristian Kreiner

Gerhard Smid and Arienne van Stavern
On the Menu: Friction and zoped – On categories to understand innovation-as-practice and develop rules for management and education

Jean-Yves Barbier
French competitive districts: Learning to waltz at three?

Xavier Deroy and Philippe Rozin
When individuals interact with routinized collective practices: Littel's strategy in the French edition

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Parallel Stream B: Materiality

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Chair: Marc Barbier

Christian Gärtner
The lived body as the locus of (innovation) practices

Michela Giampietro
The perception of utility of the way of waltzering

Connie Svabo
Material matters: Concepts of materiality in practice-based approaches to knowing in organizations

Daniel Nyberg
Dancing with things: A performative theory of human/non-human 'intra'-activitity