Practice-based approaches to knowing, learning, innovating, and managing have thrived in
recent years. Calling upon numerous narratives from a range of research fields, the author …

The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our
understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been …

The journal Organization was a precursor of the turn to practice with its 2000 Special Issue,
and the burgeoning number of special issues between 2000 and 2011 testifies to the vitality …

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical
phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory. Today, all of us with internet …

This chapter illustrates the contribution of practice epistemology to the study of management
and organization. It argues that practice theories are particularly suited to answer a simple …

Institutional change and diversity have been two major topics of debate in contemporary
social sciences. At the core of this debate are actors' skills to manage the institutional frame …

The aim of this article is to show Actor-Network Theory's (ANT) potential for accounting for
the alternative-conventional hybridity of alternative food networks. A review of the literature …

Economists do more than merely describe an external economic world. They shape it in the
image of their theories and models. This idea, following the philosophy of language, puts …

This article presents the first part of a study that proposes an evidence-based research and
prototyping method for strategic design. Analyzing the emergence of strategic design, we …

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