This article reviews scholarship dealing with the notion of “boundary work,” defined as
purposeful individual and collective effort to influence the social, symbolic, material, or …

Management and organizational scholarship is overdue for a reappraisal of occupations
and professions as well as a critical review of past and current work on the topic. Indeed, the …

Social Change in a Material World offers a new, practice theoretical account of social
change and its explanation. Extending the author's earlier account of social life, and drawing …

Names: Hui, Allison, editor.| Schatzki, Theodore R., editor.| Shove, Elizabeth, 1959–editor.
Title: The nexus of practices: connections, constellations and practitioners/edited by Allison …

In this chapter I will discuss how a practice-based sensitivity can be used to address big
issues and 'large-scale phenomena'. Examples of big issues include the nature and …

Strategy is becoming more'open'-more transparent and more inclusive. Opening Strategy
tells the story of how corporate strategists and strategy consultants have worked since the …

In this essay we revisit the radical agenda proposed by strategy-as-practice scholars to
study strategy as it emerges within people's practices. We show that, while much progress …

In this article, we outline a methodological framework for studying the inter-organizational
aspects of paradoxes and specify this in relation to grand challenges. Grand challenges are …

Developing theory for understanding social transformation is essential for environmental
sustainability, yet mainstream accounts of collective action neglect the dynamics of daily life …

Risk has become a crucial part of organizing, affecting a wide range of organizations in all
sectors. We identify, review, and integrate diverse literatures relevant to organizing risk …