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Materiality and Managerial Techniques

New Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Engages critically with the materiality aspects of managerial techniques
  • Highlights the breadth of the materiality field and its common themes through a range of contributions and topics
  • Maps current thinking in the field and sets the direction for future research

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

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Managerial Techniques in Management and Organization Studies: Theoretical Perspectives on Managerial Artefacts

    • Nathalie Mitev, Anna Morgan-Thomas, Philippe Lorino, Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Yesh Nama
    Pages 1-38
  3. Conclusion: What Next, What For?

    • Philippe Lorino
    Pages 381-388
  4. Managerial Techniques as Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
    2. The Organizational Side of Outsourcing

      • Luca Giustiniano, Federica Brunetta
      Pages 41-55
  5. Managerial Techniques as Ideology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
  6. Managerial Techniques as Symbolic Artefacts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
    2. Organizing, Management Tools and Practices

      • Philippe Lorino
      Pages 221-246
  7. Managerial Techniques as Collective Activities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
    2. Schatzki and Techno-Organizational Practice

      • Anna Morgan-Thomas
      Pages 307-324

About this book

This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management. Exploring managerial techniques, the social and material tools used by actors to guide or facilitate collective activities, topics include their socio-materiality, performative dimension, role in managerial control, relationship to organisational space and relationship to organisational legitimacy. This volume particularly explores the valuation and legitimation practices or processes involving managerial techniques, their modalities, specificities and involvement in collective activity within organisations. The overall aim of the chapters is to explore in different ways and instances the way in which material artefacts are able to inscribe and enforce managerial action which affects daily work practices.

Editors and Affiliations

  • King’s College London University, London, United Kingdom

    Nathalie Mitev

  • Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Anna Morgan-Thomas

  • ESSEC Business School, Paris, France

    Philippe Lorino

  • Paris Dauphine University, Paris, France

    Francois-Xavier de Vaujany

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Yesh Nama

About the editors

Nathalie Mitev was Associate Professor at the Department of Management, London School of Economics, and held previous positions in UK universities. She has an international reputation for in-depth qualitative research and for setting a critical agenda within information systems management.

Anna Morgan-Thomas is a Senior Lecturer at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Her research explores the implications of digital technologies for marketing practices and focuses on digitization as the on-going process of saturation of organizational processes with information technology.

Philippe Lorino is Distinguished Professor of Management Control and Organisation Theory at ESSEC Business School, Paris, and an adviser to the French Nuclear Safety Authority. In his research he draws from pragmatist authors, activity theory and dialogical studies to study organisations as continuous processes of organising embedded in action.

François-Xavier d

e Vaujany is Professor of Management & Organisation Studies at PSL-Université Paris-Dauphine, France. He is particularly interested in the role of embodiment, materiality, visuality and spatiality in the processes of communication and legitimation of new managerial practices.

Yesh Nama is a Lecturer in accounting at RMIT University, Australia. His research interests include Management accounting and control, methods of performance measurement, the impact of calculative and [e]valuation practices, and the application of qualitative research methodologies.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Materiality and Managerial Techniques

  • Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices

  • Editors: Nathalie Mitev, Anna Morgan-Thomas, Philippe Lorino, Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Yesh Nama

  • Series Title: Technology, Work and Globalization

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66101-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66100-1Published: 01 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88176-8Published: 04 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66101-8Published: 23 January 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2730-6623

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6631

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 414

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Organization

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eBook USD 139.00
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Softcover Book USD 179.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 179.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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