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Hardcover. Materiality and Space explores the importance and role of space, its relation to material objects, and how they play out in work organizations. Editor(s): De Vaujany, Francois-Xavier; Mitev, Nathalie. Series: Technology, Work and Globalization. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Technology, Work and Globalization
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137304087
SKU
V9781137304087
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About N/A
David Avison, ESSEC Business School, France Emmanuel Baudoin, University of Paris-Dauphine, France Michèle Charbonneau, l'École nationale d'administration publique, Canada Florence Charue-Duboc, Ecole Polytechnique, France Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Australia Julie Fabbri Ecole Polytechnique, France Bhumika Gupta, University of Pau, France Lotta Häkkinen, University of Turku, Finland Lucas D. Introna, Lancaster University, ... Read more
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