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This edited book concentrates on the materiality of artefacts, practices and organizations and on material spaces in management and organization studies. According to Orlikowski (2007, p. 1435), ‘the [organization studies] field has traditionally overlooked the ways in which organizing is bound up with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact’. Since the late 1990s, two main streams of research have developed with the intention of analysing these issues.
This edited book is based on a selection of 14 communications presented at the Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) workshop in June 2012 at Universite Paris-Dauphine. OAP aims to explore the relationship between organizational dynamic, symbolic or material artefacts, and practices (for more details, see: http://workshopoap.worpress.com or the OAP group on Linkedln). We would like to thank all OAP 2011 and 2012 participants for their support of and contributions to this book. Particular thanks go to 2012 OAP keynote speakers — Andrew Pickering, John Urry, Stewart Clegg, Lucas Introna and Dick Boland — for their lectures and amazing contributions to our debates.
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de Vaujany, FX., Mitev, N. (2013). Introduction: Space in Organizations and Sociomateriality. In: de Vaujany, FX., Mitev, N. (eds) Materiality and Space. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304094_1
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