Adding Life Experience in Giddens’ Structuration and Providing it with Empirical Style

This work provides practical impetus to Giddens’ structuration. To do so, it drop the implicit assumption that organizations’ states of affairs are given, abstract, and external to the “duality of structure”. Assuming instead that, like rules and resources, states of affairs enter history, as local situated matters of concern (MoC), I will show how structuration greatly enhances the intelligibility of organization doing. Above all, it will also reveal that structuration can contemplate change as stemming also from the variability provided by the experience at hand. Within such premises, I will undertake empirical research by exploring the Italian Government’s failure to sell Alitalia shares and bonds owned by the Treasure Ministry. Such story will allow a first attempt to observe closely the microprocesses of organizing and strategizing. In doing so, I draw on De Cork and Sharp’s suggestion to follow an anti-interpretive movement rather than extract generalizable theories (2007). Thus, I will use data as reminders (247) and tell about Alitalia micro activities in order to challenge meanings, while exploring “unrealized possibilities within [reality]” (247). By analyzing these reminding data, I will also explore Shotter’s claim that organizing and strategizing occur as the “action guiding” function of subsidiary awareness (AGSA) (2005).