Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders

Title: Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders
Abstract/Description: In this essay I argue that organizational theorizing would benefit from incorporating a richer understanding of work and occupations. To demonstrate how, I turn to recent literature analyzing inhabited institutions, occupations as institutions, and occupations as negotiated orders. I explore the theoretical and methodological implications of these approaches to show how they challenge some of our more abstract images of organizations. They do so by grounding their theoretical frameworks in work practices and interaction, interpretation and meaning, and understandings of occupational membership.
Author/creator: Bechky, Beth A.
Date: 2011
In publication: Organization Science
Volume: 22
Issue: 5
Pages: 1157-1167
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Theoretical
Keywords: institutions; negotiated order; occupations; professions; work
Open access/full-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 1047-7039
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0603
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (informsPubsOnline)
Citation: Bechky, B. A. (2011). Making Organizational Theory Work: Institutions, Occupations, and Negotiated Orders. Organization Science, 22(5), 1157–1167. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0603
Cited in: The Institution of Schooling

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