Materiality and Space: Organizations, Artefacts and Practices

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction: Space in Organizations and Sociomateriality....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Living in the Material World....Pages 25-40
Towards a Theory of Affordance Ecologies....Pages 41-61
Management Systems as Organizational ‘Architextures’....Pages 62-95
Bachelard’s Essays on the Elements and the Study of Materiality in Organizations....Pages 96-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
The Role of Physical Space in Collaborative Workplaces Hosting Entrepreneurs: The Case of the ‘Beehive’ in Paris....Pages 117-134
Writing Spaces — Performativity in Media Work....Pages 135-156
When Urban Space Becomes Organizational Space: A Space-Based Coordination to Deal with Volatile and Recurring Problems of Urban Incivility....Pages 157-178
Constraints and Opportunities: The Use of Space by Employees to Complete Their E-learning Programme....Pages 179-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Beyond Panoptic Enclosures? On the Spatiotemporal Dimension of Organizational Control as Induced by Mobile Information Systems....Pages 197-215
To the Victors Go the Spoils! Distributed Agencies, Inhumanities and the Case of Comrade Duch of the Khmer Rouge....Pages 216-239
Controlling Managers’ ‘Becoming’: The Practice of Identity Regulation....Pages 240-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Mobile Lives and Materialities....Pages 263-273
Redefining Agency: Indeterminacy and the Role of Extra-Organizational Dynamics in Organizational Routines and Technologies....Pages 274-301
Professional Identity, Technological Artefacts and Work Practices: The Case of the Train-Driver Community of the National Railway Company....Pages 302-323
Conclusion: Back to Longue Durée, Materialism and Management Practices?....Pages 324-329
Epilogue: Performativity and the Becoming of Sociomaterial Assemblages....Pages 330-342
Back Matter....Pages 343-361