Materiality, Rules and Regulation: New Trend in Management and Organization Studies concentrates on the relationship of rules and regulation to the materiality of artefacts, practices, and organizations. It combines the recent scholarly interest on sociomateriality with a focus on regulation and rules.

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François-Xavier de Vaujany is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Université Paris-Dauphine, France. His work deals with information and organization using social and historical perspectives about information technologies and the space of collective activity.

Nathalie Mitev is Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Management at King's College, London. Her research focuses on the organizational aspects of information systems and technology and she has built a reputation for in-depth qualitative research and for setting a critical agenda in information systems research.

Anouk Mukherjee is currently a PhD candidate at Université Paris-Dauphine, France. An electrical engineer by training, Anouk has cumulated a decade of experience in industry working on organisational transformation projects involving information systems before moving into academia. Anouk's research interests currently include information systems and organisational space / time, information systems in developing countries, and privacy.

Giovan Francesco Lanzara is Professor of Organizational Theory and Political Science at University of Bologna, Italy. His research interests range from processes of innovation in organization and institutions, to practice studies in organizations, and the analysis of institutional change. His work has been widely published in books and in major international journals.

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Preface - Material Rules Albert Borgmann Introduction - Making Sense of Rules and Materiality in Management: the New Challenge for Management and Organization Studies?; Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Nathalie Mitev, Giovan Francesco Lanzara, Anouk Mukherjee, PART I: SOCIETAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL REGULATIONS: LONG-TERM AND CONTEMPORARY TRENDS 1. Tecnologia Social: A South American View of Technology and Society Regulatory Relationship; Marlei Pozzebon 2. Development, Development, Development: Rules and Regulations Performed at a Community Multimedia Centre in South India; Savita Bailur 3. Material, Emotional and Professional Dynamics: Idealism, Commitment, and Self-Regulation in the Peace Corps; Meghan Kallman 4. American Football and the Global Medialization of Rugby Union: Geopolitical Rules and Materiality; Peter Clark PART II: PERFORMING RULES: GIVING MATTER AND POWER TO RULES 5. The Matter of Business; Fabian Muniesa 6. The Materiality of [CSR] Corporate Social Responsibility Regulation: The Making of CSR Apparatuses in a Diversified Industrial Group; Julie Bastianutti 7. Knowledge Management Systems, Autonomy and Control: How to Regulate? A Case Study in an Industrial Company; Carine Khalil, Aurélie Dudézert 8. Organizing Resisting Activities in Online Social Spaces: Regulation, Communities, Materiality; Philippe Eynaud, Damien Mourey, Nathalie Raulet-Croset PART III: MEDIATING RULES AND RULING ARTEFACTS: PERFORMATIVITY, MEDIATION AND MATERIAL REGULATION 9. Becoming, Assemblages and Intensities: Re-Exploring Rules and Routines; Jeremy Aroles, Christine Mclean 10. How Technology Remediates Practice: Objects, Rules and New Media; Giovan Lanzara PART IV: DISENTANGLING SOCIOMATERIAL PRACTICES: THE TRANSFORMATION OF REGULATION? 11. Enacting Information Security Policies in Practice: Three Modes of Policy Compliance; Marko Niemimaa, Anna Elina Laaksonen 12. Regulation of Information Technology Based Practices: The Case of a Trading Floor Incident in an Investment Bank; Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Stefan Haefliger, Vladislav Fomin, Kalle Lyytinen 13. Socio-Materiality and the Transnational Expansion of Soft Regulation: Michelin in Haute Cuisine around the World; Isabelle Bouty, Marie-Leandre Gomez, Carole Godard, Université Conclusion - From the How to the Why of Sociomaterial Regulation: The Question of Ethics in Material Analysis; Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Nathalie Mitev, Giovan Francesco Lanzara, Anouk Mukherjee Afterword - From Rules to Ethics: Ontological Implications for Sociomaterial Regulation in Management and Organization Studies; Francois-Xavier de Vaujany