Resumen de Transforming new ideas into practice: : An activity based perspective on the institutionalization of practices
Trish Reay, Samia Chreim, Karen Golden-Biddle, Elizabeth Goodrick, B. E. (Bernie) Williams
We develop an activity-focused process model of how new ideas can be transformed into front line practice by reviving attention to the importance of habitualization as a key component of institutionalization. In contrast to established models that explain how ideas diffuse or spread from one organization to another, we employ a micro-level perspective to study the subsequent intra-organizational processes through which these ideas are transformed into new workplace practices. We followed efforts to transform the organizationally accepted idea of �interdisciplinary teamwork� into new everyday practices in four cases over a six year time period. We contribute to the literature by focusing on de-habitualizing and re-habitualizing behaviours that connect micro-level actions with organizational level theorizing. Our model illuminates three phases that we propose are essential to creating and sustaining this connection: micro-level theorizing, encouraging trying the new practices, and facilitating collective meaning-making.
