Phenomenography’s contribution to organizational studies based on a practice perspective

Autor: Sandra Regina da Rocha-Pinto, Leandro Schoemer Jardim, Maria Isabel Peixoto Guimarães, Samantha Luiza de Souza Broman, Carlos Frederico Trevia
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: RAUSP Management Journal. 54:384-398
ISSN: 2531-0488
Popis: PurposeThis paper aims to propose the phenomenography as an approach that may contribute to the organizational studies based on the practice perspective, considering that it analyzes the phenomenon through the practitioner’s view and experience.Design/methodology/approachIt is a theoretical essay about phenomenography as a theoretical-methodological perspective, considering its concept, its relation with practice theories and how its theoretical-methodological approach is capable of bringing a new perspective over the organizations, in the practice perspective.FindingsThe phenomenographic method, together with the practice perspective, enables mapping, identifying, describing and relating all the different ways by which an organization, in each one of its structuring dimensions, is effectively experienced. It argues that aspects such as the phenomenographic interview, the second-order perspective, the collective conceptions stated in the outcome space and their relations, the complexity of hierarchy and the abductive theorization about the emerging concepts of collective perceptions form, all together, an alternative and promising theoretical approach to analyze the entanglement between action and the material dimension that constitutes the organizational practices.Practical implicationsThe phenomenographic outcome space may become a catalyst of a theorization about practices, which is capable to modify them or modify the way they are understood.Originality/valueIt discusses the possibility of phenomenography to theorize from the agents’ collective consciousness.
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