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This volume focuses on new ways of working, and explores implications of these new practices with a particular emphasis on the place occupied by technology, materiality and bodies within contemporary working configurations. It draws together an international range of scholars to examine diverse subjects such as: the gig economy, social media as a work space, the role of materiality in living labs, managerial techniques and organizational legitimacy. Drawing on global perspectives, from France to Nigeria, this book presents a fascinating examination of the many new ways people are working, and relating to their work.  Part of the esteemed Technology, Work and Globalization series, this book is valuable reading for scholars working on organizational studies, ethnography, technology management, and management more generally.

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Author:   Nathalie Mitev ,  Jeremy Aroles ,  Kathleen A. Stephenson ,  Julien Malaurent
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.811kg
ISBN:  

9783030616861

ISBN 10:   303061686
Pages:   498
Publication Date:   23 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: New Ways of Working, Organizations and Organizing in the Digital Age Nathalie Mitev Jeremy Aroles Kathleen A. Stephenson Julien Malaurent Part I New Ways of Working and the Sharing Economy 2 Platforms and the New Division of Labor Between Humans and Machines Attila Marton Hamid Ekbia 3 Social Media as a New Workspace: How Working Out Loud (Re)Materializes Work Claudine Bonneau Nada Endrissat Viviane Sergi 4 Institutionalizing Crowdwork as a Mode of Employment: The Case of Crowdworkers in Nigeria Ayomikun Idowu Amany Elbanna Part II New Ways of Working and Collaborative Spaces 5 Materiality as Ingredients of Events: Comprehending Materiality as a Temporal Phenomenon in a Makerspace Anthony Hussenot 6 The Role of Digital Materiality for Organizing a Living Lab Philippe Eynaud Julien Malaurent 7 Do Coworking Spaces Promise a Revolution or Spark Revenge? A Foucauldian Spatio-Material Approach to the Re-spatialization of Remote Work in Coworking Spaces Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte 8 More than Perks and a Shared Office: How Coworking Spaces Participate in Entrepreneurs’ Resource Acquisition Kutay Güneştepe Zehra Topal Deniz Tunçalp Part III New Ways of Working and Telework 9 From De-materialization to Re-materialization: A Social Dynamics Approach to New Ways of Working Michel Ajzen 10 Work/Non-work? Laminated Boundary-Tensions and Affective Capabilities: A Case of Mobile Consulting Natalie Paleothodoros Part IV New Ways of Working and Organizational Spaces 11 Space for Tensions: A Lefebvrian Perspective on New Ways of Working Andrea Simone Barth Susanne Blazejewski 12 Beyond Flexibility: Confronting Conceived and Lived Spaces of New Ways of Working Grégory Jemine Sophie Fauconneau-Dufresne François Pichault Giseline Rondeaux 13 Transmateriality of Architectural Representation and Perception Angela Bargenda 14 Technology and the Simultaneous Collapsing and Expanding of Organizational Space: A COVID-19 Experience Anouk Mukherjee Part V Organizational Aspects of New Ways of Working 15 From Innovations at Work to Innovative Ways of Conceptualizing Organization: A Brief History of Organization Studies Lise Arena Anthony Hussenot 16 Community Management Practices in Coworking Spaces: Being the ‘Catalyst’ Aurore Dandoy 17 Rise and Fall of a New Way of Working: A Testament of an Organizational Identity Mimicry Marie Antoine 18 Deconstructing New Ways of Working: A Five-Dimensional Conceptualization Proposal Grégory Jemine

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Nathalie Mitev was associate professor at the London School of Economics. She focuses on in-depth qualitative and critical research on the organizational aspects of information systems. She has published in a range of journals and is co-editor of ‘Materiality and Space’, ‘Materiality and Time’, ‘Materiality, Rules and Regulation’ and ‘Materiality and Managerial Techniques’, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Jeremy Aroles is an Assistant Professor in Organization Studies at Durham University, UK. His research focuses on the emergence of new ways of working, the management of cultural institutions, and the relation between fiction and organizational worlds. His research has notable been published in Organization Science, Management Learning and New Technology, Work and Employment. Kathleen Stephenson is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL where she also earned her PhD in 2019. Kathleen was a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool Management School. Her research examines organizational space, organizational change and maintenance, and power. You can find her work in the Academy of Management Annals. Julien Malaurent is Associate Professor of Information Systems at ESSEC since 2013. His research is published in top journals such as Journal of Management of Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Information technology. He is also Senior Editor for the Information Systems Journal. His latest research analyzes, from a phenomenological and ontological lens, digital transformation processes happening at the societal level.

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