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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Seidl, David
• Ohlson, Tanja
• Whittington, Richard

Titel

Restless Practices as Drivers of Purposive Institutional Change

Ist Teil von

• On Practice and Institution: Theorizing the Interface, 2021, Vol.70, p.187-207

Ort / Verlag

Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract This paper develops the practice-driven institutionalist perspective by introducing the concept of “restless practices.” Drawing on the practice theory of Theodore Schatzki, the authors distinguish practices by their “teloi”: some practices are devoted to replication, others are restlessly aimed at change. These restless practices are themselves composed of constitutive practices orientated toward “collecting,” “selecting” and “directing.” The authors illustrate restless practices and their constitutive practices by drawing on examples from consulting and standard-setting, both repeatedly generators of purposive, field-level change. The authors conclude that practice-driven institutionalism can accommodate change originating both from local improvisatory activities on the ground and from the designs of restless practices oriented toward fields at large.