TY - JOUR
T1 - Contributions of the activity theory to analyse disturbances in organisations
T2 - the case of solid waste management within a university hospital
AU - Cassandre, Marcio Pascoal
AU - Senger, Carine Maria
AU - Querol, Marco Antonio Pereira
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Dilemmas, conflicts, disturbances, and contradictions are constantly manifested in organisational environments, which stimulate changes and learning. In order to comprehend the historical and systemic origins of these events, it is necessary to research theoretical and methodological frameworks aiming at avoiding the misunderstanding of them as individual, shortsighted and superficial. This study's objective is to identify and analyse disturbances and contradictory manifestations in organisational management. The development of this method is based on the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, which was empirically applied in the activity of solid waste management of a university hospital. It was possible to analyse the existent disturbances between the ideal disposals of hospital residues and how the community has been discarding them. Therefore, it is necessary to understand that the analysis of the disturbances needs to precede the identification of the main hypothesis that causes the contradictions through the recuperation of the main historical changes occurred.
AB - Dilemmas, conflicts, disturbances, and contradictions are constantly manifested in organisational environments, which stimulate changes and learning. In order to comprehend the historical and systemic origins of these events, it is necessary to research theoretical and methodological frameworks aiming at avoiding the misunderstanding of them as individual, shortsighted and superficial. This study's objective is to identify and analyse disturbances and contradictory manifestations in organisational management. The development of this method is based on the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, which was empirically applied in the activity of solid waste management of a university hospital. It was possible to analyse the existent disturbances between the ideal disposals of hospital residues and how the community has been discarding them. Therefore, it is necessary to understand that the analysis of the disturbances needs to precede the identification of the main hypothesis that causes the contradictions through the recuperation of the main historical changes occurred.
KW - Cultural-historical activity theory
KW - Disturbances
KW - Organisational change
KW - Solid waste management
KW - University hospital
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055827367&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1504/IJLC.2018.095801
DO - 10.1504/IJLC.2018.095801
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85055827367
SN - 1740-2875
VL - 10
SP - 300
EP - 324
JO - International Journal of Learning and Change
JF - International Journal of Learning and Change
IS - 4
ER -