Talking about Practices: On Julian Orr’s Talking About Machines

Julian Orr’s ethnographic study of copier technicians explores three themes—practices, practitioners, and learning—gathered under the heading of ‘work’ and situated in geographic spaces—the team’s territory—and places. In my reading, the book addresses three central concerns in organizational studie...

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Published in:Organization studies Vol. 27; no. 12; pp. 1743 - 1756
Main Author: Yanow, Dvora
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.12.2006
Subjects:
Ethnography
Learning
Organization theory
Organizational culture
Organizational effectiveness
Orr, Julian
Research methods
Teamwork
Work place
communities of practitioners
workplaces
organizational ethnography
organizational space
work practices
organizational learning
ISSN:0170-8406, 1741-3044
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Summary:Julian Orr’s ethnographic study of copier technicians explores three themes—practices, practitioners, and learning—gathered under the heading of ‘work’ and situated in geographic spaces—the team’s territory—and places. In my reading, the book addresses three central concerns in organizational studies today: moves to (re-)ground theorizing in work practices, drawing on methods suitable for studying what it is that people in organizations actually do; developing practice-based understandings of organizational learning; and attending to the settings—the places and spaces—in which those practices take place.
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ISSN:0170-8406
1741-3044
DOI:10.1177/0170840606071935