Table of contents - Special Issue: Practising socializing and institutionalizing: Perspectives on the societal, organizational and individual effects of staff induction practices
The practice of socialization and the socialization of practice
Elena P. Antonacopoulou, Yvon PesqueuxAt the core of how societies operate, lies social interaction. Organizations as significant social bodies rely on social interaction both to get things done in order to remain…
Staff induction practices and organizational socialization: A review and extension of the debate
Elena P. Antonacopoulou, Wolfgang H. GüttelSocialization is one of the fundamental processes that define how collectivities emerge. Socialization underpins the social structures that shape not only how social actors…
Becoming DragonBankers: Constructing practice through processes of socially situated learning
Kjersti Bjørkeng, Stewart CleggThe purpose of this paper is to explore organizational induction as socially situated learning processes. It presents an empirical study of inductees going through an induction…
Induction as an institutionalized and institutionalizing practice: Insights from retail banking and management consulting in France
Jérôme Méric, Rémi JardatInduction and institutions may have followed the same tracks for a long period of time, but their interaction is scarcely analyzed. On the one hand, induction prepares newcomers…
Where is induction? Profession, peer group and organization in contention
Silvia Gherardi, Manuela PerrottaThe purpose of this paper is to develop an interpretative framework of induction as a social practice in order to examine the ecology of the human and non‐human actors involved in…
Regional development and global capitalism: the case of the Pilbara, Western Australia
David Pick, Kandy Dayaram, Bella ButlerThe purpose of this paper is to present the Pilbara as an illustrative case study of some of the tension that arises out of a largely unmediated engagement of regional communities…
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