A delicate issue: what to do when the state of the practice leads the state of the art

The existing state of the art within "interpretive" sociology is introduced as an initial point of reference. The special issue papers are then discussed in an order that proposes to exemplify the interdisciplinary nature of the arguments at hand. Thus, ...

Introduction The increasingly uncertain and fast-changing environments in which today's organizations operate call for a shift of attention from organizations—and organizational practices or routines—as fixed entities to the study of the distributed <...