Interconnecting The Practice Turn And Communicative Approach To Organizing: A New Challenge For Collective Action? Introduction To The Special Issue

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 or process theories (Tsoukas & in particular, have proposed seeing collective (or co-oriented) action as relying upon the heedful interrelating of actions rather than on the establishment of shared organizational knowledge or culture. Accordingly, we can understand collective action the capacity a collective to generate a performance constantly re-enacting the meaning and orientation of their action singular experience wider cultural historical &