Where has everyone gone? Re-integrating people into accounts of organizational practice

Abstract

This essay seeks to draw attention to the near invisibility of forms of subjective epistemology that include motivation, emotion, and intentionality within organizational research, particularly within accounts of practice. Although organisational researchers within the ‘practice tradition’ have achieved much to date in revealing apparently fixed, immutable organisational forms to be processes that are emergent and thus contestable, such accounts often stop at discussing the way in which such conflicts are played out at the level of the individual.