"This timely book explores how space emerges as people attempt to organize and reorganize their everyday activities. From the workplace to the internet, geographical districts to international development projects, it offers new insights on how created spaces enable further activities as the...

Section I: Organising integration – where and when it starts, and how does it end -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Organising integrationAndreas Diedrich and Barbara Czarniawska (A developed version of "Aims and Rationale") -- Chapter 2: Alternative perspectives on immigrant accommodation to...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the complexities emerging in the attempts to develop a sophisticated IT-based knowledge management system (KMS) for sharing knowledge. Using actor-network theory, the authors conceptualise this as continuous processes of translation, whereby heterogeneous...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the operation of classification mechanisms in organizational life, and how they construct the skills and knowledge of initially marginalized client groups. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on an ethnographically inspired...