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 on the material world, Lyytinen on
affordance, Lorino on architexture and Introna on sociomaterial
assemblages in order to delve further into conceptualizing materiality
in organizations.