Materiality and Time: Historical Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Time and Materiality: What Is at Stake in the Materialization of Time and Time as a Materialization?....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Time, History, and Materiality....Pages 17-32
Dual Iconographies and Legitimation Practices in Contemporary Organizations: A Tale of the Former NATO Command Room....Pages 33-58
Evolution of Non-Technical Standards: The Case of Fair Trade....Pages 59-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Making Organizational Facts, Standards, and Routines: Tracing Materialities and Materializing Traces....Pages 81-98
Management Control Artefacts: An Enabling or Constraining Tool for Action? Questioning the Definition and Uses of the Concept of Affordances from a Management Control Perspective....Pages 99-123
Clocks, Clerks, Customers: Queue Management Systems, Post-Socialist Sensibilities, and Performance Measurement at a Retail Bank....Pages 124-144
When the Omerta Is Broken: Sociomateriality and the History of Hazing in French Universities....Pages 145-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
The Historian’s Present....Pages 173-183
The Role of History in Information Systems Research: Beyond Presentism....Pages 184-203
The Principles of Campus Conception: A Spatial and Organizational Genealogy. What Knowledge Can We Use from a Historical Study in Order to Analyse the Design Processes of a New Campus?....Pages 204-224
Conclusion: Understanding Materiality and the Material Underpinnings of Organizations through a Longue Durée Approach....Pages 225-229
Epilogue: Strategic Coordination Information Technologies and Europe-USA’s Organizations: Time-and-History Regimes in Refolding Long-Term Elective Affinities....Pages 230-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-247