How to Conduct a Practice-based Study: Problems and Methods

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Is small the only beautiful? Making sense of ‘large phenomena’ from a practice- based perspective (2016, background): “Gherardi (2012) mobilises the image of texture (and sometimes web) to capture the interconnected nature of practices.”
Theorizing affective ethnography for organization studies (2018, background): “In the past 20 years, practice-based studies have contributed widely to bringing ethnography back to the fore, and we see that their main methodological suggestion for studying and representing practices is ethnography (Gherardi, 2012; Feldman and Orlikowski, 2011; Nicolini, 2012).”
Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions (2015, background): “…could usefully adopt a relational epistemology to socio-material practices (Orlikowski 2007) as well by considering the materiality of the relations that are woven together as a practice unfolds (Gherardi 2012), along with other interrelated elements of practice such as the emotive effects.”