Materiality in Institutions Spaces, Embodiment and Technology in Management and Organization /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: de Vaujany, François-Xavier (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Adrot, Anouck (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Boxenbaum, Eva (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Leca, Bernard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Technology, Work and Globalization
• Subjects: Organization.; Planning.; Management.; Industrial management.; Innovation/Technology Management.

This book aims at clarifying the role of materiality, spaces, digitality and embodiment in institutional dynamics from the perspective of Management & Organization Studies. Presenting a rich set of theoretical, methodological and epistemological advances on materiality and institutions, it also...

Table of Contents:

• Preface: Materiality, Institutions & Organizing
• Introduction: Institution and Materiality
• Institutionalization as bricolage: A material perspective
• Footsteps in the sand: consequences of conformity in complex institutional environment
• The problem of ontological fluctuations in institutional theory. Insights from research on institutional logics
• Understanding the establishment of management education in Oxford: The role of materiality in institutional change
• Institutional legitimacy and spaces: A grounded analysis of firefighters' journey into digitization
• At the intersection of materiality, organizational legitimacy and institutional logics: A study of campus tours
• The mobile game industry in Finland: The materiality of institutional logics
• Digital materialities and incompatible institutional logics
• Institutional plans versus situated actions: A video-based case of simulation in health care
• The heart is a hand grenade - plastic figurations of bodies at war
• Beyond legitimacy and legitimation as a judgment: A Merleau-Pontian view of legitimation as in the bodies of beholders
• Postface: Perspectives about materiality for institutional analysis.