Reconsidering the ‘Practice Lens’: A Plea for an Extension of Institutional Analyses in the Realm of Structuration Theory
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This paper suggests reconsidering a recent trend in organization research with respect to structuration theory in which the focus on practice dominates. By drawing on some accounts from Schulz-Schaeffer (1999) it will be shown that there is still a potential to extend the duality model by theoretically analyzing the interrelations between rules and resources. This paper takes a closer look to issues about technology because in this realm of organization research, structuration theory is one of the main theoretical backgrounds.
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