Titlebook: Materiality and Time; Historical Perspecti Francois-Xavier Vaujany,Nathalie Mitev,Emmanuelle Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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Dual Iconographies and Legitimation Practices in Contemporary Organizations: A Tale of the Former NAistributed, immaterial, and virtual organizations (Desanctis & Monge, 1999; Griffith et al., 2003), visual branding (Davison, 2009), as well as the development of tertiary, knowledge-oriented cities and national economies (Castell, 1989, 2000) and the disembodiment of information (MacKay, 1969; Hayl

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Evolution of Non-Technical Standards: The Case of Fair Traderesponding standards have evolved without the enforcement of the hierarchical authority of states, and they “help regulate and calibrate social life by rendering the modern world equivalent across cultures, time, and geography” (Timmermans & Epstein, 2010, 70). In this context, Loya and Boli (1999)

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Management Control Artefacts: An Enabling or Constraining Tool for Action? Questioning the Definitiother (Orlikowski & Scott, 2008; Orlikowski, 2010; Leonardi, 2012). In this perspective, one concept is of particular interest when studying the role of management tools in the transformation of an organization’s activities: affordances. In a nutshell, any object offers affordances for action, which

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The Historian’s PresentThe convenient formula of crisis has often recurred: one has spoken of the “crisis” of history, of history “disoriented” while our relationship to time has been day after day transformed. The future closed in on itself, the past was obscured, and the present was becoming our unique horizon (Hartog,

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The Role of History in Information Systems Research: Beyond Presentismthe offerings from the study of history, the IS community has not developed a strong tradition of historical research (Land, 2010; Mitev & de Vaujany, 2012; see also a special issue on history in IS research, Bryant et al., 2013). Arguably, the adoption of historical sensitivity and awareness is esp

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