The multifaceted nature of social practices: A review of the perspectives on practice-based theory building about organizations

•We augment our understanding of how researchers build theory about social practices.•We uncover the perspectives fieldworkers adopted to theorize about social practices.•Prior studies adopted the knowledge – while omitting the ethics-perspective.•Scholars neglected the politics perspective when looking ‘inside’ social practices.•Integrating perspectives enables capturing the various facets of social practices.