Abstract
There is increasing interest in organizational scholarship in the role of place. To support these developments, we offer a framework for place-sensitive research in organizational analysis. The notion of place refers to a unique location, endowed with a material from and a socially constructed set of meanings. In line with the phenomenology of place, our framework first distinguishes between two ontologies of place: place as experience?through which people develop a sense of place?and place as practice?through which people engage collectively to make places. Second, our framework distinguishes between three temporal orientations in relation to place: past, present, and future. We then draw from research in geography to reflect on two under-explored methodological toolkits to collect data on and analyze place as experience and place as practice in organization studies: walking interviews, and geographical videography.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 350-363 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Behavioral Science |
Volume | 58 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 5 Apr 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- phenomenology
- place
- place-making
- qualitative research
- sense of place
- situated emotions
- situated practice
- videography
- walking interviews