Materiality and Space ─ Organizations, Artefacts and Practices

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work. It concentrates on organizational practices and pulls together three separate domains that are rarely looked at together: sociomateriality, sociology of space, and social studies of technology. The contributions draw on and combine several of these domains, and propose analyses of spaces and materiality in a range of organizational practices such as collaborative workspaces, media work, urban management, e-learning environments, managerial control, mobile lives, institutional routines and professional identity. Theoretical insights are also developed by Pickering on the material world, Lyytinen on affordance, Lorino on architexture and Introna on sociomaterial assemblages in order to delve further into conceptualizing materiality in organizations.

Francois-Xavier de Vaujany is a Professor of MIS and Organization Theory at the University Paris-Dauphine, France. His research deals with ICT-related practices in organizations and he is interested in making sense of space and time in the context of IT and information in organizations.

Nathalie Mitev is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, UK. Her research focuses on the organizational aspects of information systems and technology from a social and political perspective. Her areas of interest include IT failures, ICTs and gender, globalisation, social histories of technology and critical management studies.