Materiality and Time [electronic resource] : Historical Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices /
Vaujany, François-Xavier de.
Vaujany, Francois-Xavier de.editor.
Mitev, Nathalie.editor.
Laniray, Pierre.editor.
Vaast, Emmanuelle.editor.
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.
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Cover; Title; Copyrights; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction : Time and Materiality:What Is at Stake in the Materializationof Time and Time as a Materialization?; Part IMaterializing Time and History inOrganizations: What Is at Stake?; 1Time, History, and Materiality; 2 Dual Iconographies and LegitimationPractices in ContemporaryOrganizations: A Tale of the FormerNATO Command Room; 3 Evolution of Non-Technical Standards:The Case of Fair Trade; Part IITemporal Dynamics of Artefacts andMateriality in Organizations: TheImportance of Material Traces
4Making Organizational Facts,Standards, and Routines: TracingMaterialities and Materializing Traces5Management Control Artefacts: AnEnabling or Constraining Tool forAction? Questioning the Definitionand Uses of the Concept of Affordancesfrom a Management ControlPerspective; 6Clocks, Clerks, Customers: QueueManagement Systems, Post-SocialistSensibilities, and PerformanceMeasurement at a Retail Bank; 7When the Omerta Is Broken:Sociomateriality and the History ofHazing in French Universities; Part IIIStretching Out Time and Materialityin Organizations: From Presentism toLongue Durée
8The Historian's Present9The Role of History in InformationSystems Research: Beyond Presentism; 10The Principles of Campus Conception:A Spatial and OrganizationalGenealogy. What Knowledge Can WeUse from a Historical Study in Order toAnalyse the Design Processes of a NewCampus?; Conclusion : Understanding Materialityand the Material Underpinnings ofOrganizations through a Longue DuréeApproach; Epilogue : Strategic CoordinationInformation Technologies and Europe-USA's Organizations: Time-and-HistoryRegimes in Refolding Long-TermElective Affinities; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Organization.
Management.
Leadership.
International business enterpris.
Behavioral economics.
International economics.
Organization.
Management.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
International Business.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
International Economics.