Redefining Agency: Indeterminacy and the Role of Extra-Organizational Dynamics in Organizational Routines and Technologies

Zorina, Aljona; Avison, David

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“…Instead, the adaptive space and the pressure to perform the routine build variation between them and create dynamics or divergence in the actions. In these relations, both the social and the material can also have a different emphasis depending on time and the situation at hand (D’Adderio, 2011, 2014; Zorina and Avison, 2013). Hence, the processes of variation in the sociomaterial relations become a matter of theoretical interest.…”

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Sociomaterial relations and adaptive space in routine performance

Paananen

2020

Management Learning

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This article examines the various processes through which sociomaterial relations constitute the performance of a routine. The study’s theoretical underpinnings are linked to sociomateriality in understanding the dynamics of routine performance. In this study, adaptive space furthers sociomaterial relations and processes, and their dynamics to constitute the routine performance. The findings are based on ethnographic research that was conducted during an international crisis management exercise. The analysis consists of three field episodes that illustrate the different processes in which the sociomaterial matters in routine performance. The article contributes to the theoretical discussion by showing, first, how adaptive space enables going beyond the sociomaterial dualism and transfers the theoretical emphasis to the fluidity and dynamism of these relations. It also draws attention to the sociomaterial processes that constitute the performance of the routine. Third, it further shows how through sociomaterial relations and processes the organizing of professional knowledge co-constitution is performed and managed.

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Sociomaterial relations and adaptive space in routine performance

Paananen

2020

Management Learning

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“…Brown et al, 2011;Huopalainen and Satama, 2019) that also derive insights from dance as (a metaphor for) organisation (Biehl, 2017;Chandler, 2012;Mandalaki, 2019;Mandalaki and Pérezts, 2022;Slutskaya and De Cock, 2008), the embodied, micro-level achievement of agency remains relatively under-researched within the existing scholarly debates. Furthermore, agency has traditionally been conceptualised in a surprisingly disembodied, cognitive and rational manner -as a singular entity with particular properties rather than as a relational process of entangled, human and nonhuman entities (Zovina and Avison, 2013). Although aeved at the body level through associations withother moving bodies.…”

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Pursuing perfection through relationality: Studying the intersubjective dynamics of embodied agency in ballet

Satama

Huopalainen

2022

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This study investigates the relational dynamics of embodied agency in the empirical context of ballet. Drawing on 15 ethnographic and 6 photo-elicitation interviews with professional dancers from the Finnish National Ballet, this study analyses the ways in which ballet dancers negotiate their agency in relation to other agents in their everyday work. We show how ballet dancers have to balance between satisfying the needs of the invisible gaze through different layers of relationality, on the one hand, and aiming to create room for their intimate, embodied experiences on the other. This study contributes to the existing knowledge on agency at the workplace by illustrating how it is grounded in the body in relational ways. By furthering the phenomenological understanding of subject formation as a form of intersubjectivity, this study shows how the working self is always relationally constructed, open to ambiguity and, sometimes, ‘caught between’ achieving agency and the objectifying scrutiny of the self and others between the visible onstage and hidden backstage. Consequently, this study offers in-depth insights into and parallels for intersubjective development in organisations.

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Redefining Agency: Indeterminacy and the Role of Extra-Organizational Dynamics in Organizational Routines and Technologies

Cited by 2 publications

References 33 publications

Sociomaterial relations and adaptive space in routine performance

Sociomaterial relations and adaptive space in routine performance

Pursuing perfection through relationality: Studying the intersubjective dynamics of embodied agency in ballet

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