Academic communities in social sciences are still dominated by
neo-positivist paradigm, but communities of practice developing social
constructivism have started to redress paradigmatic imbalances.
According to the latter man-made organizational reality is processual
and saturated with sensemaking (Weick). Social constructivists
succeeded in reconstructing complex organizational disasters and
contributed to organizational innovation and change (for instance in
the wake of ICT challenges). They belong to postmodernist critics of
modernity's failure to regulate social development and contribute to a
better understanding of organizing (e.g. implementing a new technology
or managing knowledge production) as patchworking and improvising. In
spite of discriminating practices, they survive in academic
communities