Materiality, Rules and Regulation

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Making Sense of Rules and Materiality: The New Challenge for Management and Organization Studies?

   1. Introduction: Making Sense of Rules and Materiality: The New Challenge for Management and Organization Studies?

      • François-Xavier de Vaujany, Nathalie Mitev, Giovan Francesco Lanzara, Anouk Mukherjee

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3. Societal and Organizational Regulations: Long-Term and Contemporary Trends

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Tecnologia Social: A South American View of the Regulatory Relationship between Technology and Society

      • Marlei Pozzebon

      Pages 33-51

   3. ‘Development, Development, Development’: Rules and Norms Performed at a ‘Community’ Multimedia Centre in South India

      • Savita Bailur

      Pages 52-72

   4. Material, Emotional and Professional Dynamics: Idealism, Commitment and Self-Regulation in the Peace Corps

      • Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

      Pages 73-99

   5. American Football and the Global Mediatization of Rugby Union: Geopolitical Rules and Materiality

      • Peter Clark

      Pages 100-117

4. Performing Rules: Giving Matter and Power to Rules

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Matter of Business

      • Fabian Muniesa

      Pages 121-126

   3. The Materiality of CSR Regulation: The Making of CSR Apparatuses in a Diversified Industrial Group

      • Julie Bastianutti

      Pages 127-142

   4. Knowledge Management Systems, Autonomy and Control: How to Regulate? A Case-Study in an Industrial Company

      • Carine Khalil, Aurélie Dudezert

      Pages 143-153

   5. Organizing Resisting Activities in On-line Social Spaces: Regulation, Communities, Materiality. The Case of a Citizen’s Movement Defending Undocumented Migrant Pupils

      • Philippe Eynaud, Damien Mourey, Nathalie Raulet-Croset

      Pages 154-174

5. Mediating Rules and Ruling Artefacts: Performativity, Mediation and Material Regulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Becoming, Assemblages and Intensities: Re-Exploring Rules and Routines

      • Jeremy Aroles, Christine McLean

      Pages 177-194

   3. How Technology Remediates Practice: Objects, Rules, and New Media

      • Giovan Francesco Lanzara

      Pages 195-220

6. Disentangling Sociomaterial Practices: The Transformation of Regulation?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Enacting Information Security Policies in Practice: Three Modes of Policy Compliance

      • Marko Niemimaa, Anna Elina Laaksonen

      Pages 223-249

   3. Regulation of Information Technology-Based Practices: The Case of a Trading Floor Incident in an Investment Bank

      • François-Xavier de Vaujany, Stefan Haefliger, Vladislav Fomin, Kalle Lyytinen

      Pages 250-266

   4. Sociomateriality and the Transnational Expansion of Soft Regulation: Michelin in Haute Cuisine around the World

      • Isabelle Bouty, Marie-Léandre Gomez, Carole Godard-Drucker

      Pages 267-292

   5. Conclusion: From the How to the Why of Sociomaterial Regulation: The Question of Ethics in Material Analysis

      • François-Xavier de Vaujany, Nathalie Mitev, Giovan Francesco Lanzara, Anouk Mukherjee

      Pages 293-297

Materiality, Rules and Regulation: New Trend in Management and Organization Studies concentrates on the relationship of rules and regulation to the materiality of artefacts, practices, and organizations. It combines the recent scholarly interest on sociomateriality with a focus on regulation and rules.

• business
• corporate social responsibility
• development
• ethics
• Information Technology (IT)
• knowledge management
• management
• organization
• organizations

• Université Paris-Dauphine, France

  François-Xavier Vaujany, Anouk Mukherjee

• King’s College London, UK

  Nathalie Mitev

• University of Bologna, Italy

  Giovan Francesco Lanzara

François-Xavier de Vaujany is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Université Paris-Dauphine, France. His work deals with information and organization using social and historical perspectives about information technologies and the space of collective activity.

Nathalie Mitev is Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Management at King's College, London. Her research focuses on the organizational aspects of information systems and technology and she has built a reputation for in-depth qualitative research and for setting a critical agenda in information systems research.

Anouk Mukherjee is currently a PhD candidate at Université Paris-Dauphine, France. An electrical engineer by training, Anouk has cumulated a decade of experience in industry working on organisational transformation projects involving information systems before moving into academia. Anouk's research interests currently include information systems and organisational space / time, information systems in developing countries, and privacy.

Giovan Francesco Lanzara is Professor of Organizational Theory and Political Science at University of Bologna, Italy. His research interests range from processes of innovation in organization and institutions, to practice studies in organizations, and the analysis of institutional change. His work has been widely published in books and in major international journals.

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