Rethinking the Role of Organizational Identities: Identity Work and Regulation in a Merger Integration Process This study explores group dynamics in identity work following a corporate merger, examining how employees navigate their historical corporate identities alongside the new organizational identity propo...

New article on organizational identity work:
👉 www.imrpress.com/journal/MRev...

Using a practice-theoretical lens, it shows how historical identities remain immanent & are selectively mobilized, adapted, or distanced in everyday work.
#MergersAndAcquisitions #OrganizationalIdentity #PracticeTheory

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New paper - How Hospitals Work: New Understandings Using Practice Theory

Co-authored by Dr Sarah Hopkins and Dr Mike Kelly, the paper informs that improving hospital care requires moving beyond systems vs individual behaviour.

Read more: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

#HealthSystems #PracticeTheory

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Bringing the sociology of #sustainableconsumption into conversation with #educationforsustainabledevelopment | Open Access
Kathryn Wheeler
1-30 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2025.2572821

#consumerchoice #consumerculture #practicetheory

https://f.mtr.cool/qkdhxjxowv

Excited to present @lancasteruni.bsky.social's #practicetheory & #power workshop! I'll explore #algorithm as practices for cracking open #blackbox myths. I propose to read #code as cultural texts and am looking forward to exciting exchanges and meeting fellow praxeologists. #sociology #phdlife

British Journal of Management (BJM) Special Issue Call for Papers: Augmenting the Impact of the Practice Turn in Business and Management Research A Special Issue Call for Papers for BAM's British Journal of Management (BJM)

📢 Special Issue with the British Journal of Management: “Augmenting the Impact of the Practice Turn in Business and Management Research.”
Submission window : 1 - 28 of February 2026 📢

Find full details and submission guidelines here: www.bam.ac.uk/resource/spe...

#practicetheory #EAP #SAP #LAP

👋 Hello BlueSky! We're Strategizers — the Strategizing Activities and Practices Interest Group, now joining the conversation here. We explore #PracticeTheory, #Strategy, and #Organization. Follow us for updates, insights, and community!

Vol. 1 (2025): Practice Theory: Past, Present, Future | The Journal of Practice Theory

New open access journal on #PracticeTheory - first pieces appearing, including a paper by Sylvia Gherardi and an interview with Wanda Orlikowski

ojs.library.lancs.ac.uk/jpt/issue/vi...

Obese societies: Reconceptualising the challenge for public health The prevalence of obesity and related health problems has increased sharply in recent decades. Dominant medical, economic, psychological, and especially epidemiological accounts conceptualise these t...

This weeks reading for our Consumption Studies reading group. This is an interesting conceptual piece on how we might integrate #practicetheory with a new critical public health approach to pressing social challenges. Interesting article-lots of new concepts!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗳𝘁: 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱.

𝗜𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘀 𝗠. 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗿, Technische Universität Dresden & Hertie School

doi.org/10.1177/0170...

#SocialEnterprise #SocialEntrepreneurship #MissionDrift #PracticeTheory #OrganizationStudies #Stakeholders

I attended my first academic conference last month with @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social and presented findings from my #PhD.

I outlined a framework that I designed to operationalise social practice theory in empirical research, including step-by-step instructions.

#tasa2024 #practicetheory

@timwaterman.bsky.social has anyone created a #Practicetheory #TheoriesofPractice starter pack do you know?

My paper live after 5 yrs work "Power as Present-in-Actions in Mundane Information Systems Work" #PowerFramework #InformationSystems #PowerRelations #ActivityTheory #PracticeTheory aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol25/iss… Congrats @stank297
BoykaSimeonova RobertGalliers @CWOSResearch @Essex_EBS