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This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management. Exploring managerial techniques, the social and material tools used by actors to guide or facilitate collective activities, topics include their socio-materiality, performative dimension, role in managerial control, relationship to organisational space and relationship to organisational legitimacy. This volume particularly explores the valuation and legitimation practices or processes involving managerial techniques, their modalities, specificities and involvement in collective activity within organisations. The overall aim of the chapters is to explore in different ways and instances the way in which material artefacts are able to inscribe and enforce managerial action which affects daily work practices.

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Managerial Techniques in Management and Organization Studies: Theoretical Perspectives on Managerial Artefacts (Nathalie Mitev, Anna Morgan-Thomas, Philippe Lorino, Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, and Yesh Nama)

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 (Baak Sara‡ Lesavre)

Chapter 3 - Standardizing Control and Controlling Government: the Introduction of Internal Auditing in the French Government´s Central Administration (Laure Célérier)

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 12 - Social Impact Measurement as a Dynamic Process: A Study in a French Non-profit Organization (Julien Kleszczowski & Nathalie Raulet Croset)

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)

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