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Materiality in Institutions

Spaces, Embodiment and Technology in Management and Organization

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Helps researchers theorize materiality and its role in institutional dynamics
  • Presents a range of theoretical, epistemological and methodological perspectives on materiality in institutions
  • Offers a unique set of contributions that spam across materiality, spaces, digitality and embodiment in institutional dynamics
  • Open avenues of collaboration between institutional theory and important research traditions not currently related to but likely to enrich it
  • Contributes to ontological discussions in Management & Organization Studies

Part of the book series: Technology, Work and Globalization (TWG)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Introduction: How Can Materiality Inform Institutional Analysis?

    • François-Xavier de Vaujany, Anouck Adrot, Eva Boxenbaum, Bernard Leca
    Pages 1-31
  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-35
    2. Materiality in Institutional Analysis: A Bricolage Approach

      • Mélodie Cartel, Eva Boxenbaum
      Pages 37-52
  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-111
    2. At the Intersection of Materiality, Organizational Legitimacy and Institutional Logics: A Study of Campus Tours

      • François-Xavier de Vaujany, Sara Winterstorm Varlander, Emmanuelle Vaast
      Pages 183-218
  5. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-311
    2. The Heart Is a Hand Grenade: Plastic Figurations of Bodies at War

      • Sine Nørholm Just, Line Kirkegaard
      Pages 313-341
    3. Conclusion: Ontological Reflections on the Role of Materiality in Institutional Inquiry

      • François-Xavier de Vaujany, Anouck Adrot, Eva Boxenbaum, Bernard Leca
      Pages 379-382
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 397-402

About this book

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.

With a foreword by Professor Thomas B. Lawrence, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université Paris-Dauphine PSL, Paris, France

    François-Xavier de Vaujany, Anouck Adrot

  • Department of Organization Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Eva Boxenbaum

  • Centre de gestion scientifique (CGS) MINES ParisTech - PSL University i3 UMR CNRS, Paris, France

    Eva Boxenbaum

  • ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France

    Bernard Leca

About the editors

François-Xavier de Vaujany is Professor of Management at Paris Dauphine University, PSL, France. He is interested in the emergence and legitimation of digital innovations and new work practices in organizations and society.

Anouck Adrot is Associate Professor at Paris Dauphine University, PSL, France and is a member of the Management & Organization team of the Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM) centre. Her research interests cover practical, material and organizational emergence in demanding and critical settings. 

Eva Boxenbaum is Professor of Organization and Management Theory at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She conducts research on how organizational actors shape the innovation, implementation and diffusion of new management practices and organizational forms, including the associated cognitive, material and visual processes. 

Bernard Leca is Professor of Management Accounting at ESSEC Business School, France.His main research focuses on institutional processes and the way organizations or individuals can initiate and implement institutional change.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Materiality in Institutions

  • Book Subtitle: Spaces, Embodiment and Technology in Management and Organization

  • Editors: François-Xavier de Vaujany, Anouck Adrot, Eva Boxenbaum, Bernard Leca

  • Series Title: Technology, Work and Globalization

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97472-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97471-2Published: 13 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97472-9Published: 01 March 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2730-6623

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6631

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 402

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Organization, Innovation/Technology Management

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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