Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Beyond old horizons: Theorising the rhythms of social reproduction

Toyoki, Sammy Spicer, Andre Elliott, Richard

Warwick Business School

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Abstrakt

The question of how organizations are produced has been an ongoing theoretical puzzle within organization studies. In order to explain this question an increasing number of organization theorists have turned to the structuration theory of Anthony Giddens. Indeed it has been widely used to examine a whole range of organization phenomena such as structure (Ranson, Hinings & Greenwood, 1980), control (Clegg, 1981), discourse (Heracleous & Barrett, 2001), technology (Orlikowski, 1992), and institutions (Barley & Tolbert, 1997). In this paper we would like to call into question this increasingly popular approach. In particular we would like to explore some of the limits of structuration theory. We would like to argue that social reproduction of organization involves the reproduction of space and time. By doing so, we would like to put issues of time and space right at the centre of debates about structuration and social reproduction

Metadane

Czasopismo Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Tom 5 
Numer 2 
Data wydania 2006 
Typ Article 
Język en
Paginacja 96-115
ISSN 1532-5555