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Changing practices through practice dialogues: being part of an active thriving practice is more fun than you can possibly imagine
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Changing practices through practice dialogues: being part of an active thriving practice is more fun than you can possibly imagine

Suzanne Alder and Sandra Grace
Professional practice discourse marginalia, pp.179-188
Practice, education, work and society, 10, Sense Publishers
2016

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Abstract

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In any workplace the discourses and traditions of practice are established over time and embedded in a continually emerging storyline that is unique to that organisation (Boje, 2013). Morgan (2006) reminds us that the culture of an organisation is a complex non-linear system “characterized by multiple systems of interaction that are both ordered and chaotic” (p. 251) and which continue to self-evolve in ways that are largely unpredictable.

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