Materiality in Management Studies: Development of the Theoretical Frontier (SpringerBriefs in Economics)

Preface
Contents
1 Prelude: The Sociomateriality and the Legacy of Structuration Theory
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2 Actor Network Theory and the Problem of Describing Heterogeneity
	2.1 Heterogeneity: A Sociomaterial Hybrid and Translation
	2.2 Problems in Describing Heterogeneity
	2.3 Describing the Calculative Heterogeneous Network: Constructing the External Labor Market in Japan
		2.3.1 Features of and Changes to the External Labor Market in Japan
		2.3.2 Japanese Private Employment Services as a Calculation Mechanism
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3 The Theoretical Positions of Institutions and Technology in Organizational Institutionalism
	3.1 Dichotomy Between Institutions and Technology
	3.2 The Institutional Analysis of Technology
	3.3 The Materiality of Institutions
	3.4 Blended Practice of Technology, Personnel System, and Strategy in Sharp Co.
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4 The Materiality of Artifacts in Performing Organizational Routines: How Patterns of Action Are Created and Maintained
	4.1 Organizational Routines as Dualities: Background and Definitions
	4.2 The Material Turn in the Studies of Organizational Routines
	4.3 Artifacts’ Physical Structure Routinizes Sports Training Practices in Club Activities
	4.4 The Action Programs Inscribed in the Artifacts Induce Aircraft Maintenance Technicians to Check the Manuals
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5 Practical Implications of Social Construction: Turning Constructivism to Constructionism
	5.1 Subjective Constructivism and Transcendental Constructionism
	5.2 The First Implication of Constructionism: The Linguistic Turn
	5.3 The Second Implication of Constructionism: Intervention via Language
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6 The Spatial Turn in Social Materiality: Organizational Space in Critical Management Studies
	6.1 A Stumbling Block in Critical Management Studies
	6.2 The Spatial Turn in Human Geography
	6.3 Spatial Management in Management Studies
	6.4 Spatial Management in Japan
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7 The Material Turn in New Realism and the Science Based Innovation
	7.1 New Realism as the Research Program
	7.2 Critical Realism in Social Science
	7.3 Materiality and Agential Realism
	7.4 Smaller World and Bigger World Driven by Large Synchrotron Radiation Facilities
		7.4.1 Sociomaterial Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Industry not Observed in the Smaller World
		7.4.2 Sumitomo Rubber Industries’ Innovation Guided by Bigger World Observations
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8 Epilogue: Materiality Concept in the History of Management Studies
	8.1 Socio-technical Systems Theory Aiming at Intervention in Practice
	8.2 What Was ‘Technological Determinism’?
	8.3 The Meta Theories of Materiality Contained in Management Studies
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Index