Materiality and Managerial Techniques: New Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices

Part I Managerial Techniques as Institutions

Chapter 1 - The Organizational Side of Outsourcing (Luca Giustiniano & Federica Brunetta)

Chapter 2 - Budgeting the Future: Negotiating the Values of a Contemporary Liberal Democracy (Ba ak Saraç Lesavre)

Part II Managerial Techniques as Ideology

Chapter 4 - The Impact of Contemporary Management Ideas:  Their Influence on the Constitution of Public Sector  Management Work (Christine Shearer, Judy Johnston & Stewart Clegg)

Chapter 5 - Reconfiguration of Information Flows by Public Sector  IT Systems: The Question of Fairness and Ethics (Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic & Olivera Marjanovic)

Part III Managerial Techniques as Symbolic Artefacts

Chapter 6 - Shall We Just Call Them Sociomaterial Black Boxes or  Take a Peek Inside? An Anthropologist's Impressionist Remarks (Pierre Lemonnier)

 Chapter 7 - Physical and Epistemic Objects in Museum  Conservation Risk Management (Erica Coslor)

Chapter 8 - Organizing, Management Tools and Practices (Philippe Lorino)

Part IV Managerial Techniques as Collective Activities

Chapter 9 - Imbrication in Operational Control Practices: Evidence from a Complex Process Industry Setting (Fazlin Ali and Alan Lowe)

Chapter 10 - How the Materialization of a Managerial Model  Contributes to its Take Up: The Case of 'Liberating  Management' in France (Patrick Gilbert, Nathalie Raulet-Croset,& Ann-Charlotte Teglborg)

Chapter 11 - Schatzki and Techno-Organizational Practice (Anna Morgan-Thomas)

Chapter 13 - Managing Knowledge Management: Managing the  Manifold of Epistemic Objectives in Professional Health  Care Organizations (Christian T. Lystbaek)

Chapter 14 - Conclusion: What next? What for? (Philippe Lorino)

Postface: The Jester Returns-Selected Readings and  Eclectic Opinions on Sociomateriality Going Mainstream in Management and Organization Studies (Karlheinz Kautz)