Boundary objects, power, and learning: The matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations
| Autor: | Annie Pye, Fernando Correia, Beverley Hawkins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Materiality (auditing)
Knowledge management business.industry Strategy and Management 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) 050301 education General Decision Sciences Middle management Boundary (real estate) Epistemology Power (social and political) Action (philosophy) Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Sociology business Affordance 0503 education Action learning 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Management Learning. 48:292-310 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7307 1350-5076 |
| Popis: | This article develops an understanding of the agential role of boundary objects in generating and politicizing learning in organizations, as it emerges from the entangled actions of humans and non-humans. We offer two empirical vignettes in which middle managers seek to develop more sustainable ways of working. Informed by Foucault’s writing on power, our work highlights how power relations enable and foreclose the affordances, or possibilities for action, associated with boundary objects. Our data demonstrate how this impacts the learning that emerges as boundary objects are configured and unraveled over time. In so doing, we illustrate how boundary objects are not fixed entities, but are mutable, relational, and politicized in nature. Connecting boundary objects to affordances within a Foucauldian perspective on power offers a more nuanced understanding of how ‘the material’ plays an agential role in consolidating and disrupting understandings in the accomplishment of learning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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