TY - CHAP AB - This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand, conceive, and study processes of organization, and subscribes to a processual view of organization that, since Weick's seminal book The Social Psychology of Organizing, has turned the study of organizations into one of organizing. More than 30 years later, the field of organizing has increasingly expanded Weick's interpretive framework of sense making, resulting in a rich palette of conceptual frameworks that vary between such diverse processual approaches as complexity theory, phenomenology, narration, dramaturgy, ethnomethodology, discourse (analysis), practice, actor-network theory, and radical process theory (Steyaert, 2007). These various theoretical approaches draw upon and give expression to a relational turn that has transformed conceptual thinking in philosophy, literature, and social sciences, and that increasingly inscribes the study of organization within an ontology of becoming. VL - 7 SN - 978-0-85724-007-1, 978-0-85724-006-4/1877-6361 DO - 10.1108/S1877-6361(2010)0000007005 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-6361(2010)0000007005 AU - Steyaert Chris AU - Van Looy Bart ED - Chris Steyaert ED - Bart Van Looy PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/01/01 TI - Chapter 1 Participative Organizing as Relational Practice T2 - Relational Practices, Participative Organizing T3 - Advanced Series in Management PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 1 EP - 17 Y2 - 2024/05/12 ER -