Future work: Toward a practice perspective
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Organization as time: Technology, Power and Politics. ed. / François Xavier de Vaujany; Robin Holt; Albane Grandazzi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. p. 136-155.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Future work
T2 - Toward a practice perspective
AU - Wenzel, Matthias
AU - Krämer, Hannes
AU - Koch, Jochen
AU - Reckwitz, Andreas
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In the ‘future of work’ in particular and organizations more generally, the future is a ubiquitous companion and serves as a key point of orientation for actions. However, at the same time, the future is elusive, as its open-endedness undermines attempts to fully predict and ‘manage’, but also examine this temporal mode. In response to the intricate challenge of exploring the role of the future in organizations, we argue that practice theory can help us gain a deeper understanding of how organizational actors engage with the future. By revisiting key principles of practice theory and their relationships with time and the future, we propose to explore ‘future work’, i.e., the situationally enacted, performative, heterogeneous, and relationally entwined bundle of practices through which organizational actors engage with events that are to come. We conclude by discussing the implications of gaining a practice-based understanding of the future in organizations and suggest avenues for future research.
AB - In the ‘future of work’ in particular and organizations more generally, the future is a ubiquitous companion and serves as a key point of orientation for actions. However, at the same time, the future is elusive, as its open-endedness undermines attempts to fully predict and ‘manage’, but also examine this temporal mode. In response to the intricate challenge of exploring the role of the future in organizations, we argue that practice theory can help us gain a deeper understanding of how organizational actors engage with the future. By revisiting key principles of practice theory and their relationships with time and the future, we propose to explore ‘future work’, i.e., the situationally enacted, performative, heterogeneous, and relationally entwined bundle of practices through which organizational actors engage with events that are to come. We conclude by discussing the implications of gaining a practice-based understanding of the future in organizations and suggest avenues for future research.
KW - Management studies
KW - Organization
KW - future work
KW - future-making
KW - practice theory
KW - situationality
KW - performativity
KW - heterogeneity
KW - Relationality
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/organization-as-time/D49E557B5865C2FEE18D35DF01994A88
UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009297288
U2 - 10.1017/9781009297288.008
DO - 10.1017/9781009297288.008
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-009-29725-7
SN - 978-1-009-29726-4
SP - 136
EP - 155
BT - Organization as time
A2 - Vaujany, François Xavier de
A2 - Holt, Robin
A2 - Grandazzi, Albane
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -