Barriers to New Practice Emerging

• Authors: Zofia Patora-Wysocka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the issues of barriers to creating practice from the processual perspective in management sciences. The notion of practice is a relatively important cognitive concept in the processual approach to management. It is connected with the issues of the organizational change and draws on Anthony Giddens’s concept of structuration. Management issues understood in this way are presented in the context of the specific nature of enterprises’ functioning as part of their everyday actions. This article is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the issues discussed. The goal of the research is to recognize barriers to emerging practice in an enterprise. The researcher used qualitative methods. As part of this research, a semi-structured interview was conducted in an enterprise representing the textile and clothes sector. Barriers to practice development are of processual, resource and environmental character. The most important barriers to practice creation are those which are sector-specific and environmental.

Keywords

EN

barriers; practice; routines; actions; emerging practice

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Intercultural Management
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 4-1
• Pages: 233-243

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2015-08-25

Contributors

author

Zofia Patora-Wysocka

• University of Social Sciences

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/joim-2014-0048