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Culture, cognition and sensemaking

Culture, sensemaking, framing and symbolic management.

Of its 210 readings, 39 are assigned in two or more sources and listed first, with the number of sources beside each (in bold for the core readings, in 4 or more); the 171 listed in only one source are folded under each heading.

In the theory tree: grows out of 1 Social theory; leads to 8 Institutional theory.

Drawn from: DiMaggio (Princeton); Maoret (IESE); Pollock (Tennessee); Glaser (Alberta); Lounsbury & Zhao (Oxford Bibliographies); Anteby (Boston University); Jia (USC); Fiss (USC); Martin (Berkeley); Zuckerman (MIT); Yue (USC); Clough (UBC); Cameron (Wharton); Kogut & Keum (Columbia); Sullivan (HKUST); Amit (Wharton); Zhou (HKU); Yiu (CUHK). Full details of the sources are on the reading lists page.

By decade

Before 1950: 3 readings<19501950s: 2 readings1950s1960s: 4 readings1960s1970s: 19 readings1970s1980s: 43 readings1980s1990s: 80 readings801990s2000s: 32 readings2000s2010s: 26 readings2010s2020s: 1 reading2020s
Most date from the 1990s; half were published in 1994 or later.

7.1 Culture and cognition: foundations

  1. Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor.3
  2. Swidler, A. (1986). Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies. American Sociological Review, 51(2), 273. https://doi.org/10.2307/20955213
  3. White, H. C. (1992). Identity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social Action. Princeton University Press.3
  4. Emirbayer, M., & Goodwin, J. (1994). Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency. American Journal of Sociology, 99(6), 1411–1454. https://doi.org/10.1086/2304503
  5. Parsons, T., & Shils, E. A. (1951). Values, Motives and Systems of Action. In T. Parsons & E. A. Shils (Eds.), Toward a General Theory of Action (pp. 47–275). Harvard University Press.2
  6. Douglas, M. (1978). Cultural Bias. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.2
  7. DiMaggio, P. (1997). Culture and Cognition. Annual Review of Sociology, 23(1), 263–287. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.2632
  8. Yeung, K. T., & Martin, J. L. (2003). The Looking Glass Self: An Empirical Test and Elaboration. Social Forces, 81(3), 843–879. https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2003.00482
43 more, listed in one source
  1. Weber, M. (1930). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Scribners.
  2. Garfinkel, H. (1964). Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities. Social Problems, 11(3), 225–250. https://doi.org/10.2307/798722
  3. Geertz, C. (1972). Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. Daedalus.
  4. Goffman, E. (1974). Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Harvard University Press.
  5. Bourdieu, P. (1977). Doxa, Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy. In Outline of a Theory of Practice (pp. 159–70). Cambridge University Press.
  6. Hochschild, A. R. (1979). Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure. American Journal of Sociology, 85(3), 551–575. https://doi.org/10.1086/227049
  7. Gumperz, J. J. (1982). Conversational code switching. In Discourse Strategies (pp. 38–99). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511611834.006
  8. Douglas, M. (1982 [1970]). Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology.
  9. Wuthnow, R., Bergesen, A., Hunter, J. D., & Kurzweil, E. (1984). The Cultural Anthropology of Mary Douglas. In Cultural Analysis (pp. 77–132). Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  10. Archer, M. S. (1985). The Myth of Cultural Unity. British Journal of Sociology.
  11. Douglas, M. (1986). How Institutions Think. Syracuse University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.37252704
  12. Bourdieu, P. (1986). The Forms of Capital. In J. G. Richardson (Ed.), Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education (pp. 241–58). Greenwood Press.
  13. Griswold, W. (1987). A Methodological Framework for the Sociology of Culture. Sociological Methodology, 17, 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/271027
  14. Wuthnow, R. (1987). Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis. University of Calif. Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520909250
  15. Hannerz, U. (1989). Culture between center and periphery: Toward a macroanthropology. Ethnos, 54(3-4), 200–216. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1989.9981392
  16. Schudson, M. (1989). How culture works: Perspectives from media studies on the efficacy of symbols. Theory and Society, 18(2), 153–180. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00160753
  17. Wacquant, L. J. D. (1989). Towards a Reflexive Sociology: A Workshop with Pierre Bourdieu. Sociological Theory, 7(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.2307/202061
  18. Bourdieu, P. (1990). In Other Words: Essays Toward a Reflexive Sociology. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503621558
  19. Eliasoph, N. (1990). Political culture and the presentation of a political self: A study of the public sphere in the spirit of Erving Goffman. Theory and Society, 19(4), 465–494. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00137622
  20. Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1991). The social construction of reality: A treatise in the sociology of knowledge. Penguin UK.
  21. Bourdieu, P., & Wacquant, L. J. D. (1992). An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. University of Chicago Press.
  22. Hannerz, U. (1992). Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning. Columbia University Press.
  23. Calhoun, C. J., LiPuma, E., & Postone, M. (1993). Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press.
  24. Schneider, M. (1993). Culture and Enchantment. University of Chicago Press.
  25. Shafir, E. (1993). Reason-based choice. Cognition, 49(1-2), 11–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(93)90034-s
  26. DiMaggio, P. (1994). Culture and Economy. In N. J. Smelser & R. Swedberg (Eds.), The Handbook of Economic Sociology (pp. 27–57). Princeton University Press.
  27. Jepperson, R. L., & Swidler, A. (1994). What properties of culture should we measure? Poetics, 22(4), 359–371. https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-422x(94)90014-0
  28. D'Andrade, R. G. (1995). The Development of Cognitive Anthropology. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139166645
  29. Swartz, D. (1997). Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226161655.001.0001
  30. Jasso, G., & Opp, K.-D. (1997). Probing the Character of Norms: A Factorial Survey Analysis of the Norms of Political Action. American Sociological Review, 62(6), 947. https://doi.org/10.2307/2657349
  31. Zerubavel, E. (1997). Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674045439
  32. Chwe, M. S.-Y. (1998). Culture, Circles and Commercials: Publicity, Common Knowledge, and Social Coordination. Rationality and Society, 10(1), 47–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/104346398010001002
  33. Wacquant, L. (1998). Pierre Bourdieu. In R. Stones (Ed.), Key Sociological Thinkers (pp. 215–28). NYU Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26616-6_17
  34. Bourdieu, P. (1998). The Economy of Symbolic Goods. In Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action (pp. 92–123). Polity Press.
  35. Fardon, R. (1999). Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  36. Miller, D. T. (1999). The norm of self-interest. American Psychologist, 54(12), 1053–1060. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.54.12.1053
  37. Stets, J. E., & Burke, P. J. (2000). Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory. Social Psychology Quarterly, 63(3), 224. https://doi.org/10.2307/2695870
  38. Swidler, A. (2000). Talk of Love: How Culture Matters. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226230665.001.0001
  39. Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108(4), 814–834. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.108.4.814
  40. Eliasoph, N., & Lichterman, P. (2003). Culture in Interaction. American Journal of Sociology, 108(4), 735–794. https://doi.org/10.1086/367920
  41. Diehl, D., & McFarland, D. (2010). Toward a Historical Sociology of Social Situations. American Journal of Sociology, 115(6), 1713–1752. https://doi.org/10.1086/651941
  42. Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C., Lee, L., Pang, B., & Kleinberg, J. (2012). Echoes of power: language effects and power differences in social interaction. Proceedings of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/2187836.2187931
  43. Polavieja, J. G. (2015). Capturing Culture: A New Method to Estimate Exogenous Cultural Effects Using Migrant Populations. American Sociological Review, 80(1), 166–191. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122414562600

7.2 Sensemaking and enactment

  1. Ferraro, F., Pfeffer, J., & Sutton, R. I. (2005). Economics Language and Assumptions: How Theories can Become Self-Fulfilling. Academy of Management Review, 30(1), 8–24. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2005.152814123
  2. Abolafia, M. Y., & Kilduff, M. (1988). Enacting Market Crisis: The Social Construction of a Speculative Bubble. Administrative Science Quarterly, 33(2), 177. https://doi.org/10.2307/23930542
  3. Weick, K. E. (1993). The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38(4), 628. https://doi.org/10.2307/23933392
  4. Gioia, D. A., & Thomas, J. B. (1996). Identity, Image, and Issue Interpretation: Sensemaking During Strategic Change in Academia. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(3), 370. https://doi.org/10.2307/23939362
  5. Elsbach, K. D., & Kramer, R. M. (1996). Members' Responses to Organizational Identity Threats: Encountering and Countering the Business Week Rankings. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(3), 442. https://doi.org/10.2307/23939382
  6. Rindova, V. P., Becerra, M., & Contardo, I. (2004). Enacting Competitive Wars: Competitive Activity, Language Games, and Market Consequences. Academy of Management Review, 29(4), 670. https://doi.org/10.2307/201590772
  7. Whiteman, G., & Cooper, W. H. (2011). Ecological Sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal, 54(5), 889–911. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2008.08432
13 more, listed in one source
  1. Weick, K. E. (1976). Educational Organizations as Loosely Coupled Systems. Administrative Science Quarterly, 21(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/2391875
  2. Ranson, S., Hinings, B., & Greenwood, R. (1980). The Structuring of Organizational Structures. Administrative Science Quarterly, 25(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392223
  3. Meyer, A. D. (1982). Adapting to Environmental Jolts. Administrative Science Quarterly, 27(4), 515. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392528
  4. Daft, R. L., & Weick, K. E. (1984). Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems. Academy of Management Review, 9(2), 284. https://doi.org/10.2307/258441
  5. Orton, J. D., & Weick, K. E. (1990). Loosely Coupled Systems: A Reconceptualization. Academy of Management Review, 15(2), 203. https://doi.org/10.2307/258154
  6. Weick, K. E. (1990). Technology as equivoque: Sensemaking in new technologies. In P. S. Goodman & L. S. Sproull (Eds.), Technology and Organizations (pp. 1–44). Jossey-Bass.
  7. Gioia, D. A., & Chittipeddi, K. (1991). Sensemaking and sensegiving in strategic change initiation. Strategic Management Journal, 12(6), 433–448. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250120604
  8. Thomas, J. B., Clark, S. M., & Gioia, D. A. (1993). Strategic sensemaking and organizational performance: Linkages among scanning, interpretation, action, and outcomes. Academy of Management Journal, 36(2), 239–270. https://doi.org/10.2307/256522
  9. Weick, K. E. (1995). Seven properties of sensemaking. In Sensemaking in Organizations. Sage. 17-62.
  10. Balogun, J., & Johnson, G. (2004). Organizational Restructuring and Middle Manager Sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal, 47(4), 523–549. https://doi.org/10.2307/20159600
  11. Pollock, T. G., Rindova, V. P., & Maggitti, P. G. (2008). Market Watch: Information and Availability Cascades Among the Media and Investors in the U.S. IPO Market. Academy of Management Journal, 51(2), 335–358. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2008.31767275
  12. Maitlis, S., & Christianson, M. (2014). Sensemaking in Organizations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward. Academy of Management Annals, 8(1), 57–125. https://doi.org/10.5465/19416520.2014.873177
  13. Glynn, M. A., & Watkiss, L. (2020). Of Organizing and Sensemaking: From Action to Meaning and Back Again in a Half‐Century of Weick’s Theorizing. Journal of Management Studies, 57(7), 1331–1354. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12613

7.3 Managerial and strategic cognition

  1. Porac, J. F., Thomas, H., & Baden‐Fuller, C. (1989). Competitive Groups as Cognitive Communities: The Case of Scottish Knitwear Manufacturers. Journal of Management Studies, 26(4), 397–416. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1989.tb00736.x4
  2. Porac, J. F., Thomas, H., Wilson, F., Paton, D., & Kanfer, A. (1995). Rivalry and the Industry Model of Scottish Knitwear Producers. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40(2), 203. https://doi.org/10.2307/23936364
  3. Barr, P. S., Stimpert, J. L., & Huff, A. S. (1992). Cognitive change, strategic action, and organizational renewal. Strategic Management Journal, 13(S1), 15–36. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.42501310042
  4. Garud, R., & Rappa, M. A. (1994). A Socio-Cognitive Model of Technology Evolution: The Case of Cochlear Implants. Organization Science, 5(3), 344–362. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.5.3.3442
6 more, listed in one source
  1. Schooler, C. (1987). Psychological Effects of Complex Environments During the Life Span: A Review and Theory. In C. Schooler & K. W. Schaie (Eds.), Cognitive Functioning and Social Structure Over the Life Course (pp. 24–49). Ablex Publishing Corp.
  2. Benner, M. J. (2010). Securities Analysts and Incumbent Response to Radical Technological Change: Evidence from Digital Photography and Internet Telephony. Organization Science, 21(1), 42–62. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0395
  3. Weber, L., & Mayer, K. J. (2011). Designing Effective Contracts: Exploring the Influence of Framing and Expectations. Academy of Management Review, 36(1), 53–75. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2008.0270
  4. Martins, L. L., Rindova, V. P., & Greenbaum, B. E. (2015). Unlocking the Hidden Value of Concepts: A Cognitive Approach to Business Model Innovation. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(1), 99–117. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1191
  5. Zardkoohi, A., & Bierman, L. (2015). “Transaction Cost Economics and the Cognitive Perspective: Investigating the Sources and Governance of Interpretive Uncertainty”—A Comment. Academy of Management Review, 40(3), 466–470. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0400
  6. Mayer, K. J., & Weber, L. (2015). “Transaction Cost Economics and the Cognitive Perspective: Investigating the Sources and Governance of Interpretive Uncertainty”—A Response to Zardkoohi and Bierman. Academy of Management Review, 40(3), 470–473. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2015.0023

7.4 Impression and symbolic management

  1. Fiss, P. C., & Zajac, E. J. (2006). The Symbolic Management of Strategic Change: Sensegiving Via Framing and Decoupling. Academy of Management Journal, 49(6), 1173–1193. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2006.234782554
  2. McDonnell, M.-H., & King, B. (2013). Keeping up Appearances: Reputational Threat and Impression Management after Social Movement Boycotts. Administrative Science Quarterly, 58(3), 387–419. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392135000322
8 more, listed in one source
  1. Bettman, J. R., & Weitz, B. A. (1983). Attributions in the Board Room: Causal Reasoning in Corporate Annual Reports. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28(2), 165. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392616
  2. Staw, B. M., McKechnie, P. I., & Puffer, S. M. (1983). The Justification of Organizational Performance. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28(4), 582. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393010
  3. Salancik, G. R., & Meindl, J. R. (1984). Corporate Attributions as Strategic Illusions of Management Control. Administrative Science Quarterly, 29(2), 238. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393176
  4. Ginzel, L., Kramer, & Sutton, R. (1992). Organizational Impression Management as a Reciprocal Influence Process: The Neglected Role of the Organizational Audience. In Research in Organizational Behavior, 15, L. L. Cummings and B. Staw, eds (pp. 227–266).
  5. Ingram, P. (1996). Organizational form as a solution to the problem of credible commitment: The evolution of naming strategies among U.S. hotel chains, 1896-1980. Strategic Management Journal, 17(S1), 85–98. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.4250171007
  6. Phillips, D. J., & Kim, Y.-K. (2009). Why Pseudonyms? Deception as Identity Preservation Among Jazz Record Companies, 1920–1929. Organization Science, 20(3), 481–499. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1080.0371
  7. Petkova, A. P., Rindova, V. P., & Gupta, A. K. (2013). No News Is Bad News: Sensegiving Activities, Media Attention, and Venture Capital Funding of New Technology Organizations. Organization Science, 24(3), 865–888. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.0759
  8. Durand, R., & Vergne, J. (2015). Asset divestment as a response to media attacks in stigmatized industries. Strategic Management Journal, 36(8), 1205–1223. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2280

7.5 Discourse, rhetoric and narrative

  1. Zbaracki, M. J. (1998). The Rhetoric and Reality of Total Quality Management. Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(3), 602. https://doi.org/10.2307/23936773
  2. Lounsbury, M., & Glynn, M. A. (2001). Cultural entrepreneurship: stories, legitimacy, and the acquisition of resources. Strategic Management Journal, 22(6-7), 545–564. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.1883
  3. Martens, M. L., Jennings, J. E., & Jennings, P. D. (2007). Do the Stories They tell get them the Money They Need? The Role of Entrepreneurial Narratives in Resource Acquisition. Academy of Management Journal, 50(5), 1107–1132. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2007.271694882
  4. Harmon, D. J., Green, S. E., Jr., & Goodnight, G. T. (2015). A Model of Rhetorical Legitimation: The Structure of Communication and Cognition Underlying Institutional Maintenance and Change. Academy of Management Review, 40(1), 76–95. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2013.03102
15 more, listed in one source
  1. Toulmin, S. E. (1958). The Uses of Argument. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511840005
  2. Burke, K. (1969). A Grammar of Motives. Reprint. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520341715
  3. Bakhtin, M. M. (1982). The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. University of Texas Press. https://doi.org/10.7560/715271
  4. Gamson, W. A., & Modigliani, A. (1989). Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach. American Journal of Sociology, 95(1), 1–37. https://doi.org/10.1086/229213
  5. Eccles, R. G., Nohria, N., & Berkley, J. D. (1992). Beyond the Hype: Rediscovering the Essence of Management. Harvard Business School Press.
  6. Gamson, W. A. (1992). Talking Politics. Cambridge University Press.
  7. Binder, A. (1993). Constructing Racial Rhetoric: Media Depictions of Harm in Heavy Metal and Rap Music. American Sociological Review, 58(6), 753. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095949
  8. Oakes, L. S., Townley, B., & Cooper, D. J. (1998). Business Planning as Pedagogy: Language and Control in a Changing Institutional Field. Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(2), 257. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393853
  9. Hardy, C., Palmer, I., & Phillips, N. (2000). Discourse as a Strategic Resource. Human Relations, 53(9), 1227–1248. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726700539006
  10. Phillips, N., Lawrence, T. B., & Hardy, C. (2004). Discourse and Institutions. Academy of Management Review, 29(4), 635. https://doi.org/10.2307/20159075
  11. Fiss, P. C., & Hirsch, P. M. (2005). The Discourse of Globalization: Framing and Sensemaking of an Emerging Concept. American Sociological Review, 70(1), 29–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/000312240507000103
  12. Mantere, S., & Vaara, E. (2008). On the Problem of Participation in Strategy: A Critical Discursive Perspective. Organization Science, 19(2), 341–358. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0296
  13. Phillips, N., & Malhotra, N. (2008). Taking Social Construction Seriously: Extending the Discursive Approach in Institutional Theory. In R. Greenwood, C. Oliver, K. Sahlin, & R. Suddaby (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (pp. 702–720). SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781849200387.n30
  14. Meyer, R. E., & Höllerer, M. A. (2010). Meaning Structures in a Contested Issue Field: A Topographic Map of Shareholder Value in Austria. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6), 1241–1262. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.57317829
  15. Balogun, J., Jacobs, C., Jarzabkowski, P., Mantere, S., & Vaara, E. (2014). Placing Strategy Discourse in Context: Sociomateriality, Sensemaking, and Power. Journal of Management Studies, 51(2), 175–201. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12059

7.6 Culture in organizations and groups

  1. Kunda, G. (1992). Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation. Temple University Press.3
10 more, listed in one source
  1. Swidler, A. (1979). Organization Without Authority: Dilemmas of Social Control in Free Schools. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674433663
  2. Fine, G. A., & Kleinman, S. (1979). Rethinking Subculture: An Interactionist Analysis. American Journal of Sociology, 85(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1086/226971
  3. Fine, G. A. (1979). Small Groups and Culture Creation: The Idioculture of Little League Baseball Teams. American Sociological Review, 44(5), 733. https://doi.org/10.2307/2094525
  4. Hofstede, G., Neuijen, B., Ohayv, D. D., & Sanders, G. (1990). Measuring Organizational Cultures: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study Across Twenty Cases. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(2), 286. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393392
  5. Fine, G. A. (1996). Justifying Work: Occupational Rhetorics as Resources in Restaurant Kitchens. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(1), 90. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393987
  6. Harzing, A., & Hofstede, G. (1996). Planned Change in Organizations: The Influence of National Culture. Research in the Sociology of Organizations.
  7. Carroll, G. R., & Harrison, J. R. (1998). Organizational Demography and Culture: Insights from a Formal Model and Simulation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(3), 637. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393678
  8. Srivastava, S. B., & Banaji, M. R. (2011). Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations. American Sociological Review, 76(2), 207–233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122411399390
  9. Corritore, M., Goldberg, A., & Srivastava, S. B. (2017). Duality in Diversity: Cultural Heterogeneity, Language, and Firm Performance. Working paper. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3000402
  10. Srivastava, S. B., Goldberg, A., Manian, V. G., & Potts, C. (2018). Enculturation Trajectories: Language, Cultural Adaptation, and Individual Outcomes in Organizations. Management Science, 64(3), 1348–1364. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2016.2671

7.7 Practice, materiality and technology

  1. Barley, S. R. (1986). Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 31(1), 78. https://doi.org/10.2307/23927676
  2. Orlikowski, W. J. (1992). The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations. Organization Science, 3(3), 398–427. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.3.3.3982
  3. Feldman, M. S., & Orlikowski, W. J. (2011). Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory. Organization Science, 22(5), 1240–1253. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.06122
  4. Kaplan, S., & Orlikowski, W. J. (2013). Temporal Work in Strategy Making. Organization Science, 24(4), 965–995. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1120.07922
8 more, listed in one source
  1. Bourdieu, P. (1977). Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511812507
  2. Giddens, A. (1982). Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory. University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-86056-2
  3. Lave, J. (1988). Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511609268
  4. Bourdieu, P. (1990). The Logic of Practice. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503621749
  5. Orlikowski, W. J. (1996). Improvising Organizational Transformation Over Time: A Situated Change Perspective. Information Systems Research, 7(1), 63–92. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.7.1.63
  6. Orlikowski, W. J. (2000). Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations. Organization Science, 11(4), 404–428. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.11.4.404.14600
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7.8 Production and consumption of culture

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7.9 Meaning, boundaries and evaluation in social life

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