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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Schatzki."”.
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Practising knowing in emergency departments : tracing the disciplinary and institutional complexities of working, learning and knowing in modern emergency departments
… work (Gherardi 2008; Orlikowski 2002; Schatzki 2001a; Yamauchi 2006), I examine how their working, learning and knowing in practice respond to disciplinary and institutional structurings of care that afford particular opportunities for action. In doing this, ‘prominence and explanatory …
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A PHENOMENOLOGICAL LOOK AT THE LIFE HACKING-ENABLED PRACTICES OF INDIVIDUALS WITH MOBILITY AND DEXTERITY IMPAIRMENTS
… as described by Andreas Reckwitz and Theodore Schatzki as well Bruno Latour’s articulation of actor-network theory, this interpretive qualitative research study uncovers different ways participants were dis/enabled and dis/empowered in their daily life practices. Findings point to issues most …
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“It’s the Secret to the Universe”: The Communicative Constitution and Routinization of a Dominant Authoritative Text within a UK Cosmetics Company
… (e.g. Hancock, 2005) and practice theory (e.g. Schatzki, 2006), provides original insight into how authority routinely acts. The thesis’s main contribution to knowledge is the crafting of ‘dominant text’ which is defined as; <i>a series of orchestrated texts which simultaneously exercise …
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The power and limitations of restricted quantum learning models
Quantum technologies have rapidly advanced over the past decade or so. However, noise and decoherence are still challenges. At the same time, quantum learning theory has quickly grown and many techniques have been developed with applications in verifying and benchmarking quantum devices. However, …
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Collective woodlot management in Nova Scotia : a case study of Conform, Ltd.
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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The Environmental Management Accounting Control as a Practice
… by the practice theory and site ontology from Schatzki. This thesis research investigates two case studies: the plantation company (CP plantation) and the agrochemical company (CM manufacture). The study focuses on the key actors: the department or division managers, factory plant managers, and …
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Remaking jobs and organisations : a Schatzkian practice perspective
… Australian organisations in order to show how a Schatzkian view of ‘practice’ can illuminate conceptualisations of organisations, change, jobs, workers and knowing in ways that challenge prevailing managerialist theorisations of the same. In particular, this thesis draws on Schatzkian notions of …