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Interconnecting the practice turn and communicative approach to organizing

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This special issue advances knowledge of collective action―one of the most challenging issues for contemporary businesses and organizations―by bringing together theoretical and empirical contributions at the intersection of the practice turn (Feldman & Orlikowski, 2011; Knorr-Cetina, Schatzki, & Von Savigny, 2005; Nicolini, 2012; Rouleau, 2013; Whittington, 2011) and communicative approaches to organizing (Cooren, 2015; Putnam & Nicotera, 2008). Scholars from various disciplines (e.g. sociology, management, psychology, communication, economics and ergonomic studies) have long been interested in the ongoing transformation and enactment of collective action at work in relation to wider organizational transformations. Interpretive (Putnam & Pacanowsky, 1983) or process theories (Tsoukas & Chia, 2002), in particular, have proposed seeing collective (or co-oriented) action as relying upon the heedful interrelating of actions (Weick & Roberts, 1993) rather than on the establishment of shared organizational knowledge or culture. Accordingly, we can understand collective action as the capacity of a collective to generate a performance by constantly reenacting the meaning and orientation of their action in a singular experience within a wider cultural and historical experience (Arnaud & Mills, 2012). Today, more than ever, collective action is a distributed and hybrid performance, a polyphonic dance of human and non-human agency not necessarily performed within a formal organization (Cooren, 2010; Robichaud & Cooren, 2013). Within these developments, while recognizing the possibility of a “community without a unity” (Corlett, 1989; Nicolini, 2012), the question of how the diversity of practices across time and space become interrelated, organized and recognized as a collective is particularly salient. In particular, what is the role of communication in making connections between diverse bundles of practices so that a sense of collectiveness is formed? How can multiple voices become the one voice of an organized entity, thus gaining coherence while remaining different? This is what collective action is about in modern organizing: a phenomenon in between situated communication and practice.

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hal-03662605 , version 1 (09-05-2022)

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Nicolas Arnaud, Bertrand Fauré, Jeanne Mengis, François Cooren. Interconnecting the practice turn and communicative approach to organizing: A new challenge for collective action?. M@n@gement, 2018, 21 (2), pp.691. ⟨10.3917/mana.212.0691⟩. ⟨hal-03662605⟩
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