Materiality, Rules and Regulation ― New Trends in Management and Organization Studies

Materiality, Rules and Regulation: New Trend in Management and Organization Studies explores in different ways and instances how material artefacts are able to inscribe and enforce regulation, thus vicariously replacing formal (textual) norms and rules, or direct supervision. Various approaches that can bring valuable insights on the topic such as Marxism, institutionalism, neo-institutionalism, process studies, regulation sociology and affordance literature are represented in this book from a micro-perspective on organizations and the material underpinnings of regulation. The focus is therefore on how new mediations are enacted and a new institutional and environment takes shape, where administrative action and regulation assume new features. As a consequence of multiple mediations, new composite entities emerge.

Nathalie Mitev is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, UK. Her research focuses on the organizational aspects of information systems and technology and she has built a reputation for in-depth qualitative research and for setting a critical agenda in information systems research.

Francois-Xavier de Vaujany is Professor of management and organization studies at Universite Paris-Dauphine, France. His work deals with information and organization such as social and historical perspectives about information technologies and the space of collective activity.

Anouk Mukherjee is currently a PhD candidate at Universite Paris-Dauphine, France. An electrical engineer by training, Anouk has cumulated a decade of experience in industry working on organisational transformation projects involving information systems before moving into academia. Anouk's research interests currently include information systems and organisational space & time, information systems in developing countries, and privacy.

Giovan Francesco Lanzara is Professor of Organizational Theory and Political Science at University of Bologna, Italy. His research interests range from processes of innovation in organization and institutions, to practice studies in organizations, and the analysis of institutional change. His work has been widely published in books and in major international journals.