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Looking at Agency in Depth: Insights from Phenomenology Looking at Agency in Depth: Insights from Phenomenology
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Capturing the Logic of Practice through Phenomenology Capturing the Logic of Practice through Phenomenology
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Epilogue Epilogue
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Acknowledgement Acknowledgement
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References References
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Afterword: Why and How Phenomenology Matters to Organizational Research
Get accessHaridimos Tsoukas is the Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus, and a Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies (2003-2008). He is the author of Philosophical Organization Theory (2019) and Complex Knowledge: Studies in Organizational Epistemology (2005), both published by Oxford University Press. He has co-edited several books, including The SAGE Handbook of Process Organization Studies (2017, with Ann Langley, SAGE). His research interests include organizational knowledge, organizational becoming, practical reason in management studies, philosophy, and organization studies.
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Published:26 January 2023
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Abstract
In this chapter, I attempt to show how phenomenology enables a richer (i.e. anti-dualist) account of organizational phenomena by enabling researchers to capture the logic of practice. By offering a more complex ontological understanding of agency (embodied, temporally structured, and embedded), phenomenologically informed organizational research enables us to see the multiple ways in which agents relate to the world. By according priority to being-in-the-world, as the primordial way of being, it offers a holistic ontological framework that focuses on relationality. By emphasizing enaction, it underlines the partly self-constitutive character of knowing through action. And by bringing out the non-successive character of temporality, it highlights the incessantly processual character of experience. I illustrate my account with examples from organizational research.
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