Materiality and Managerial Techniques

Chapter 1 Managerial Techniques in Management and Organization Studies: Theoretical Perspectives on Managerial Artefacts

Chapter 2 The Organizational Side of Outsourcing

Chapter 3 Budgeting the Future: Negotiating the Values of a Contemporary Liberal Democracy

Chapter 4 Standardizing Control and Controlling Government: The Introduction of Internal Auditing in the French Government’s Central Administration

Chapter 5 The Impact of Contemporary Management Ideas: Their Influence on the Constitution of Public Sector Management Work

Chapter 6 Reconfiguration of Information Flows by Public Sector IT Systems: The Question of Fairness and Ethics

Chapter 7 Shall We Just Call Them Sociomaterial Black Boxes or Take a Peek Inside? An Anthropologist’s Impressionist Remarks

Chapter 8 Physical and Epistemic Objects in Museum Conservation Risk Management

Chapter 9 Organizing, Management Tools and Practices

Chapter 10 Imbrication in Operational Control Practices: Evidence from a Complex Process Industry Setting

Chapter 11 How the Materialization of a Managerial Model Contributes to its Take Up: The Case of ‘Liberating Management’ in France

Chapter 12 Schatzki and Techno-Organizational Practice

Chapter 13 Social Impact Measurement as a Dynamic Process: A Study in a French Non-profit Organization

Chapter 14 Managing Knowledge Management: Managing the Manifold of Epistemic Objectives in Professional Health Care Organizations

Chapter 15 Conclusion: What Next, What For?

Chapter 16 Postface: The Jester Returns—Selected Readings and Eclectic Opinions on Sociomateriality Going Mainstream in Management and Organization Studies