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

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 gives voice to distinctive and diverse perspectives on materiality in institutions, structuring chapters into four major topics: artefacts and objects, digitality and information, space and time, body and embodiment. This book sparks discussion and debate about ontological dimensions of Management & Organization Studies, including post-discursive, visual, phenomenological and material.

With a foreword by Professor Thomas B. Lawrence, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

François-Xavier de Vaujany is Professor of Management at Paris Dauphine University, PSL, France. He is interested in the emergence and legitimation of digital innovations and new work practices in organizations and society.

Anouck Adrot is Associate Professor at Paris Dauphine University, PSL, France and is a member of the Management & Organization team of the Dauphine Recherches en Management (DRM) centre. Her research interests cover practical, material and organizational emergence in demanding and critical settings. 

Eva Boxenbaum is Professor of Organization and Management Theory at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She conducts research on how organizational actors shape the innovation, implementation and diffusion of new management practices and organizational forms, including the associated cognitive, material and visual processes. 

Bernard Leca is Professor of Management Accounting at ESSEC Business School, France.His main research focuses on institutional processes and the way organizations or individuals can initiate and implement institutional change.