4th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) Workshop Rules, Regulations and Materiality in Management and Organization Studies, 26-27th June 2014, Luis University, Roma Nathalie Mitev, François-Xavier de Vaujany, Paolo Spagnoletti, Yesh Nama To cite this version: Nathalie Mitev, François-Xavier de Vaujany, Paolo Spagnoletti, Yesh Nama. 4th Organizations, Ar- tifacts and Practices (OAP) Workshop Rules, Regulations and Materiality in Management and Orga- nization Studies, 26-27th June 2014, Luis University, Roma. 2014. halshs-01877012 HAL Id: halshs-01877012 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01877012 Submitted on 19 Sep 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. 4th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) Workshop Rules, Regulations and Materiality in Management and Organization Studies 26th and 27th June 2014 LUISS Guido Carli University, viale Pola 12, Roma - Italy Editors: Nathalie Mitev (London School of Economics) François-Xavier de Vaujany (Paris-Dauphine) Paolo Spagnoletti (LUISS Guido Carli) With the help of: Yesh Nama (ESSEC Business School) Scientific Committee Richard Baskerville (Georgia State University), Markus Becker (Odense University), Jean- François Chanlat (Université Paris-Dauphine), Stewart Clegg (University of Technology Sydney), Vladislav Fomin (Vytautas Magnus University), Sébastien Gand (Mines Paritech), Martin Giraudeau (London School of Economics), Luca Giustiniano (LUISS), Stefan Haefliger (Cass Business School), Isabelle Huault (Université Paris-Dauphine), Giovan Francesco Lanzara (Bologna University), Jean-Pascal Gond (Cass University), Paul Leonardi (Northwestern University), Philippe Lorino (ESSEC), Marcello Martinez (Second University of Naples), Peter Miller (London School of Economics), Nathalie Mitev (London School of Economics), Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western University), Fabian Muniesa (Mines ParisTech), Jan Ondrus (ESSEC), Andrew Pickering (University of Exeter), Cecilia Rossignoli (University of Verona), Jean-Claude Sardas (Mines ParisTech), Paolo Spagnoletti (LUISS), Emmanuelle Vaast (McGill University), François-Xavier de Vaujany (Université Paris- Dauphine), JoAnne Yates (MIT). Organizing Committee Francesco Cappa (LUISS), Amany Elbanna (Royal Holloway), Luca Giustiniano (LUISS), Magda Hercheui (Westminster University), Wifak Houij-Gueddana (London School of Economics), Marc Kholbry (Université Paris-Dauphine), Sébastien Lorenzini (Université Paris-Dauphine), Francesca Marzo (LUISS), Yesh Nama (ESSEC Business School), Paolo Spagnoletti (LUISS), Andrea Resca (LUISS), Luca Sabini (LUISS), François-Xavier de Vaujany (Université Paris-Dauphine), Christine Vicens (Université Paris-Dauphine), Stefano Za (LUISS). 1 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION The first OAP workshop was launched in May of 2011 at Paris-Dauphine with the goal of facilitating discussion among scholars from various disciplines (e.g. management, sociology, anthropology, ergonomics, computer science, psychology…) who collectively share an interest in understanding the dynamics that exist between organizations, artifacts (IT, managerial techniques, buildings, machines, cognitive schemes, symbols…), and practices. OAP relates to debates in the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sociomateriality, Organizational Space, Symbolic artifacts and Managerial Techniques, among others. The theme of the second workshop at Paris-Dauphine was ‘Sociomateriality and Space’ and the third workshop at the London School of Economics was on ‘Sociomateriality and Time’. The workshop’s fourth session will concentrate on the subject of rules and regulations in organizations. In the context of global competition and the global crisis experienced by most countries all over the world, the issue of regulation is more than ever at stake. How are organizations regulated through everyday practices? How are everyday practices entangled with information technologies, work environments, and organizational spaces? How is organizational control implemented through, against, with, everyday material artifacts? To compete globally, how do organizations standardize their products, services, and infrastructures, to embed themselves in global markets? At a more micro-level, how are these global practices enacted locally and with what effects at the macro-level (on society)? What are the relationships between norms, practices and artifacts? Do regulations expected to be conveyed by artifacts have any specificity? This fourth workshop will aim at shedding light on the following topics, among others: - Rules and their relationships with material artifacts in organizations, and more generally, organizational space and time; - Organizational regulations and their relationships with materiality; - The relationship between regulation and legitimation in organizations, and their material underpinnings; - The standardization of organizations and their products and their material dimensions, - Performativity and normativity in organizations; - Levels of regulations (societal, organizational, groupal) and their interplay; It will also be a way to come back to the more usual themes of OAP: - Artifacts and objects as the constituents, results or outputs of organizations and organizing; - The issue of materialization and performativity in organizations; - The entanglements or imbrication between the material and social dimensions of organizational practices; - New vocabularies to act or overcome the social-material dichotomy (what else beyond Latour)? - Discourses and materiality; - The exploration of organizational space, artifacts and spatial practices; - The affordance of materiality and space in organizations; - Performativity, time and materiality; - Marxist and post-marxist approaches of materiality; - History, longue-durée and materiality. 2 LIST OF ABSTRACTS TRACK 1 - CREATIVE PROCESSES AND ORGANIZATIONAL REGULATIONS 13 Working to Rule: Practices of Simplification and Amplification 14 Making room for change: The case of a surgical unit 17 Creative Destruction as Sociomaterial Becomings: Insights from the Entrepreneurial Processes 19 TRACK 2 - SOCIETY, RULES AND REGULATIONS 22 Digital materiality and co-operatives: A shrinking mode of production or an opportunity for growth? 23 Rules and IT-based practices: A sociomaterial analysis 27 The materiality of CSR regulation in industrial organizations: a comparison between longitudinal case studies 30 TRACK 3 - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MATERIAL REGULATIONS 33 The incomplete cathedral: iconic spaces, unfolding architecture, and innovation in the city of Siena 34 Innovation and space-time rules in global media by union as laboratories for pacified excitement 1985-2014 37 New Companies, New Organizational Forms? 40 TRACK 4 - BUREAUCRACY AND NEW MODES OF ORGANIZING 45 Bureaucratized morality, institutional durability: organizationally mediated idealism in the Peace Corps 46 Powers of romance: the liminal challenges of managing organizational intimacy 49 “We are following and supporting you!”: Fan communities and Artists: A gift-based regulation 52 TRACK 5 - PERFORMATIVITY AND RULES 54 The arenas of performativity: designing and negotiating the socio-materiality of economic innovations within platforms 55 Achieving II performativity across EU national legal domains and practices: the challenge of e-CODEX 57 How to perform rules that do not exist? A socio-material perspective on the unrealized creation of rules in a social movement 60 TRACK 6 - ROUTINES, NATIONS AND REGULATIONS 63 Rules, routines and disruptions in the Dutch railways 64 3 Organizational Learning in the Implementation & Adoption of National Electronic Health Records Systems in Hospitals in England 67 Trials of explicitness in the formulation of a fee system: The case of the nuclear waste program in the United States 69 TRACK 7 - SPACE AND MATERIALITY 71 Movements in/of space and development of learning. The case of a packaging company 72 Visualization of spatial organization: from art of memory to action? 75 Build artifacts in sustainable urban projects: When pragmatism makes innovation 79 TRACK 8 - PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MATERIALITY AND ARTIFACTS 84 Tecnologia social: A South American view of the technology-society relationship 85 Felicitous heterotopia or infelicitous prototopia? The development of new rules as a pragmatist inquiry 88 Materiality and Beyond: Theorizing the Relevance of Artefacts along the Third Epistemological Route 92 TRACK 9 - TOOLS AND REGULATIONS 95 Knowledge Management Systems, Autonomy and Control: how to regulate? A case-study in an industrial company 96 Electronic business reporting: technology objects in the construction of transparent market infrastructures? 99 Performance measurement in a nonprofit organization: social impact measurement between material tools and social practice 104 SESSION 10 - NORMS, IDENTITY AND MATERIALITY 106 Rules, norms and materiality in practice: a clinical experience 107 Professional identity, work environment and sociomaterial practices 110 Setting rules for the unruled web: organizational