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Administration in organizations emerged as a specific field of inquiry for social sciences in the middle of the twentieth century. Herbert Simon has defined a program that allows social sciences to move from principles to concepts about action and action taking. Four main perspectives of...
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long known, the games people play increase with the number of rules in place. To explore the practices in organizations … with a broad perspective we define sociomaterial regulation as the relationships between the rules, the IT artifacts, and … the practices. A new theoretical terminology around the three relationships (materialization of rules in IT artifacts …
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Space reconfiguration and architecture is an important element for organizations (Berg & Kreiner, 1992). Thus, a new/building office inauguration is always an important moment of organizational life. It implies great changes and provide a great opportunity to scan organizational culture as long...
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As the workshop’s fourth session will concentrate on the subject of rules and regulations in organizations. In the … research, notably on these issues of rules, regulations and materiality. As some articles show anthropology can be a good …
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behaviors. The existence or the absence of rules to structure and control these practices is an important factor in this process … of adaptation and appropriation. As a matter of fact, rules (or non-existent rules) can be a constraint or an opportunity … subject to rules, which can be explicit or tacit, external or internal, and created by the organization or by users. These …
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the theoretical framework of quality management. We propose a conceptual model based on the convention theory. This framework enables to understand the quality as a social construct, but also the reasons why quality is managed by institutions. In this...
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, institutions are viewed as rules imposed on individuals and the focus is on the strategic games among coalitions that aim to … promote or block new rules. In the second, institutions are viewed as shared beliefs; here the idea is to analyze how …
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enforce rules in IT-rich contexts have not been extensively analyzed in sociomaterial inquiries. We address this gap by … conceptualizing and empirically exploring the interplay of rules and IT-based practices. We define a set of constitutive and enabling …) how rules are materialized in IT artifacts, 2) how practices are interdependent on IT artifacts, and 3) how rules and …
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they prescribe a medicine, and, how the Mediator’s scandal in France has changed rules, material practices and the … health. They were quiet few in the 90’s. But regarding the new coercive and social rules, this group of opponents is getting … young as soon as they have considered this social rules as taken for granted in their practices. In fact, the youngest GPs …
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differentiated standards with transfers when strictly identical countries deal with transboundary pollution. We especially ask what …
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