Materiality in Institutions Spaces, Embodiment and Technology in Management and Organization /
This book aims at clarifying the role of materiality, spaces, digitality and embodiment in institutional dynamics from the perspective of Management & Organization Studies. Presenting a rich set of theoretical, methodological and epistemological advances on materiality and institutions, it also...
| Other Authors: | Vaujany, François-Xavier de,, Adrot, Anouck,, Boxenbaum, Eva,, Leca, Bernard,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (XXII, 402 pages) : illustrations. |
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Technology, work and globalization.
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| Summary: |
This book aims at clarifying the role of materiality, spaces, digitality and embodiment in institutional dynamics from the perspective of Management & Organization Studies. Presenting a rich set of theoretical, methodological and epistemological advances on materiality and institutions, it also gives voice to distinctive and diverse perspectives on materiality in institutions, structuring chapters into four major topics: artefacts and objects, digitality and information, space and time, body and embodiment. This book sparks discussion and debate about ontological dimensions of Management & Organization Studies, including post-discursive, visual, phenomenological and material. |
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Preface: Materiality, Institutions & Organizing -- Introduction: Institution and Materiality -- Institutionalization as bricolage: A material perspective -- Footsteps in the sand: consequences of conformity in complex institutional environment -- The problem of ontological fluctuations in institutional theory. Insights from research on institutional logics -- Understanding the establishment of management education in Oxford: The role of materiality in institutional change -- Institutional legitimacy and spaces: A grounded analysis of firefighters' journey into digitization -- At the intersection of materiality, organizational legitimacy and institutional logics: A study of campus tours -- The mobile game industry in Finland: The materiality of institutional logics -- Digital materialities and incompatible institutional logics -- Institutional plans versus situated actions: A video-based case of simulation in health care -- The heart is a hand grenade -- plastic figurations of bodies at war -- Beyond legitimacy and legitimation as a judgment: A Merleau-Pontian view of legitimation as in the bodies of beholders -- Postface: Perspectives about materiality for institutional analysis. This book aims at clarifying the role of materiality, spaces, digitality and embodiment in institutional dynamics from the perspective of Management & Organization Studies. Presenting a rich set of theoretical, methodological and epistemological advances on materiality and institutions, it also gives voice to distinctive and diverse perspectives on materiality in institutions, structuring chapters into four major topics: artefacts and objects, digitality and information, space and time, body and embodiment. This book sparks discussion and debate about ontological dimensions of Management & Organization Studies, including post-discursive, visual, phenomenological and material. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (XXII, 402 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: |
9783319974729 3319974726 |