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Barriers to New Practice Emerging
Barriers to New Practice Emerging

Author(s): Zofia Patora-Wysocka
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Sociology
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: barriers; practice; routines; actions; emerging practice

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the issues of barriers to creating practice from the processual perspective in management sciences. The notion of practice is a relatively important cognitive concept in the processual approach to management. It is connected with the issues of the organizational change and draws on Anthony Giddens’s concept of structuration. Management issues understood in this way are presented in the context of the specific nature of enterprises’ functioning as part of their everyday actions. This article is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the issues discussed. The goal of the research is to recognize barriers to emerging practice in an enterprise. The researcher used qualitative methods. As part of this research, a semi-structured interview was conducted in an enterprise representing the textile and clothes sector. Barriers to practice development are of processual, resource and environmental character. The most important barriers to practice creation are those which are sector-specific and environmental.

  • Issue Year: 6/2014
  • Issue No: 4.1
  • Page Range: 233-243
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English