ABSTRACT
Institutional logics are emergent from our embodied relations with each other and the natural world. This chapter presents a detailed picture of practices in order to investigate them historically. It distinguishes between conventions, rituals and routines. The chapter focuses on routines in particular, both because they are most often neglected in historical accounts and because of their centrality to organisational life. Communion is a central practice in most Christian denominations. Rituals are an important part of the practices that carry other logics as well. Conventions are then, one important form of practices, ones that are often only revealed in the work of social anthropologists. Routines have been an important part of evolutionary approaches to economics, associated in particular with the work of R. Nelson and S. Winter. In 1910, Walter Frere not only published a series of transcripts of documents relating to visitations in England but also provided a general introduction to the practice.
