Materiality and Time
Historical Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices
Editors: de Vaujany, F.-X., Mitev, N., Laniray, P., Vaast, E. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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The book explores how time is materialized and performed in organizations; examines how organizations and organizational members are constituted by and constitutive of material artefacts; and reflects on what a historical perspective on these materializations can bring to the study of organizations.
- About the authors
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Pierre Laniray is a PhD candidate at Université Paris-Dauphine having obtained a Masters in Political Science and a Masters in Business Consulting and Information Technologies. Grounded in organization theory and information systems, his current research looks at the sociomaterial aspects of professional identity (or workplace identity). His teachings relate to management of information systems and strategizing with ICT.
Nathalie Mitev is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management and has held prior positions at Salford University in Manchester and City University Business School in London. Her research focuses on the organizational aspects of information systems and technology, particularly from a sociological and political perspective. She has published critical work in management studies, including the Journal of Management Studies, Management Learning, and Personnel Review, and information systems, such as the European Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Information Technology, Information Technology and People, The Information Society, and Information Technology for Development. She is a visiting professor at the Ecole de Management de Strasbourg and the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises at Grenoble University.
Emmanuelle Vaast is an associate professor of information systems at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University. She received her Ph.D. from Ecole Polytechnique, France. Her research questions practices and their transformations at the individual, community, network, organizational, and field levels, especially as they relate to innovations and the introduction of new technologies.
François-Xavier de Vaujany is professor of management and organization studies at Université Paris-Dauphine, France. His research focuses on the relationship between space, artefacts and practices in organizations, in particular (but not exclusively) in the context of ICT-related practices. His main ongoing research explores the relationship between spatial practices and legitimacy (in particular for global universities or business schools), information and sociomaterial practices, or fashion cycles in the adoption of IT by organizations (through the ethnographic analysis of tradeshows in France and Spain).
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Time and Materiality: What Is at Stake in the Materialization of Time and Time as a Materialization?
Pages 1-13
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Time, History, and Materiality
Pages 17-32
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Dual Iconographies and Legitimation Practices in Contemporary Organizations: A Tale of the Former NATO Command Room
Pages 33-58
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Evolution of Non-Technical Standards: The Case of Fair Trade
Pages 59-78
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Making Organizational Facts, Standards, and Routines: Tracing Materialities and Materializing Traces
Pages 81-98
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Materiality and Time
- Book Subtitle
- Historical Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices
- Editors
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- Francois-Xavier de Vaujany
- N. Mitev
- P. Laniray
- E. Vaast
- Series Title
- Technology, Work and Globalization
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-43212-4
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137432124
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-43210-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-49239-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 247
- Topics
