The practice of socialization and the socialization of practice

Antonacopoulou, Elena P.; Pesqueux, Yvon

doi:10.1108/17465681011017237

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“…Our findings support Antonacopoulou and Güttel's () assertions that socialization involves newcomers both replicating and determining organizational practices. Past research has focused predominantly on the integration of newcomers into organizations (Kammeyer‐Mueller, Wanberg, Rubenstein, & Song, ), including replication of organizational practices (Antonacopoulou & Pesqueux, ). Our findings reveal that newcomers also determine practice (Nicholson, ), drawing on their previous experience.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, focusing only on newcomers' adjustment fails to consider the broader impacts newcomers may have, including their effects on organizational processes (Scott & Myers, ). Third, more specifically, there has been a call to examine what is unique to the social aspects of socialization (Cooper‐Thomas et al, ), as well as to further unpack the complexities of socialization from a practice perspective (Antonacopoulou & Pesqueux, ). This suggests the need to focus on interactions that help or hinder newcomers, that is, the social in socialization.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reclaiming the social in socialization: A practice‐based understanding of newcomer adjustment

Harris

Cooper‐Thomas

Smith

et al. 2020

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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The socialization of an employee into a new role provides an opportunity for both the newcomer and the organization to maintain or improve current practices. In this paper, integrating ideas from a practice-based perspective with the concept of sensemaking, we draw on the multiple perspectives provided by the newcomer and relevant colleagues to examine the socialization process. Using an inductive, qualitative approach analyzing 21 semi-structured interviews in six organizations with four types of participant-newcomers, and their respective coworkers, managers, and human resource (HR) representatives-our findings shed light on how interactions between newcomers and these three types of insiders influence newcomers' enactment of organizational practices. Specifically, newcomers who received greater sensegiving from insiders had, in turn, more opportunity to sensetest their nascent understandings, and to sensemake using these inputs, leading to the replication of organizational practices. Conversely, newcomers with limited access to sensegiving were less able to sensetest, and instead relied more on previous experiences to make sense of their new environment, leading to the determination of practices. Newcomers with substantial prior work experience used this as a valuable input to sensemaking, allowing quasi-replication and determination of organizational practices that were more likely to be accepted, although not always. Our findings highlight social aspects of socialization as integral to sensemaking processes and performance of practice. In order to optimize

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Reclaiming the social in socialization: A practice‐based understanding of newcomer adjustment

Harris

Cooper‐Thomas

Smith

et al. 2020

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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“…In this case of customer co-creation in advertisement/marketing communication, we followed Antonacopoulou and Pesqueux 52 to describe the case and the following points were considered:…”

Section: Engaging Creative Customersmentioning

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Customer co-creation through social media: The case of ‘Crash the Pepsi IPL 2015’

Yadav

Kamboj

Rahman

2016

J Direct Data Digit Mark Pract

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Customer co-creation is a hot topic among companies as well as customers and, thorough communication between customers and companies, is believed to be central to the success of an existing/new product or service. Research has endorsed the importance of co-creation via customer participation. Social media platforms and company websites have encouraged the creation of user-generated content in this era of consumer sovereignty. This article illustrates customer co-creation through social media with the help of a recent case of 'Crash the Pepsi IPL'an advertisement co-creation campaign by PepsiCo in India. This case is evidence of a paradigm shift in power from companies to consumers. It also elucidates the role of digital marketing/social media in front-end innovation. This is believed to be the first article on customer co-creation in advertising through social media in India.

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“…This notion, which derived from the Latin pràctica and from the Ancient Greek pràktiké, is a particularly effective "narrative expedient" to symbolize materiality, fabrication, manual skill, movement and competence-to-act (Gherardi, 2001, p. 136;Nicolini, Gherardi & Yanow, 2003). Practice is a polysemic word (Strati, 2007;Antonacopoulou & Pesqueux, 2010), or rather, an "umbrella concept" (Gherardi, 2006, p. 19). …”

Section: The Rediscovery Of Practicementioning

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Beyond the Provisional Nature: Towards a Radial Concept of Practice

Verzelloni

2016

TPA

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Practice is one of the key concepts of our time. During the last 30 years, the Practice-Based Studies have spread all over the world. The "rediscovery" of practice has inspired many reflections and empirical researches, contributing to the recent development of the organizational and management studies. This article aims, on the one hand, to reconstruct the debate around the concept of practice and, on the other hand, discuss its meaning, as defined within the PBS. In this paper, it will be argued that practice should be conceived as a "radial concept". This idea, coming from the political science, is the key to explore new universes of meaning and to read and compare the practitioners' activities, the functioning of organizations and the collective learning processes. The paper will introduce the phenomenon of the so-called Observatories of Civil Justice. These interprofessional communities represent a unique window on the Italian judicial system. This case study enables to critically analyse the concept of practice and to highlight its subtypes: experimental practice, solipsistic practice, diffused practice, concerted practice, fixed practice, institutionalized practice.

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The practice of socialization and the socialization of practice

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Reclaiming the social in socialization: A practice‐based understanding of newcomer adjustment

Reclaiming the social in socialization: A practice‐based understanding of newcomer adjustment

Customer co-creation through social media: The case of ‘Crash the Pepsi IPL 2015’

Beyond the Provisional Nature: Towards a Radial Concept of Practice

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