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This book examines the multiple ways in which rules and regulation are entangled with the materiality of artefacts, practices and organizations. It continues the exploration of the theme of materiality in organizational and management studies, following from two previous volumes on Materiality and Space (de Vaujany and Mitev, 2013) and Materiality and Time (de Vaujany et al., 2014). This third volume addresses the following questions: How are organizations regulated through material practices? What are the relationships among norms, rules, practices and artefacts? What are the links between material artefacts and organizational control? Do regulations conveyed through artefacts have any specificity? How do organizations standardize their products, services and infrastructures to embed themselves materially in global markets?
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de Vaujany, FX., Mitev, N., Lanzara, G.F., Mukherjee, A. (2015). Introduction: Making Sense of Rules and Materiality: The New Challenge for Management and Organization Studies?. In: de Vaujany, FX., Mitev, N., Lanzara, G.F., Mukherjee, A. (eds) Materiality, Rules and Regulation. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137552648_1
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