Introduction: Time and Materiality: What Is at Stake in the Materialization of Time and Time as a Materialization?

Abstract

This edited book concentrates on the materiality of artefacts, practices, and organizations and on their historical dimensions. The book combines the recent scholarly interest on sociomateriality with a deep fascination with time and a secular perspective. It adds a time dimension that complements the spatial focus of the first book on "Materiality and Space" published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. The stream of research related to sociomaterial practices is influenced primarily by Latour (2005), Suchman (1987), Pickering (1995), and Orlikowski (2005, 2007) and has attempted to overcome the dichotomy between social and material worlds by concentrating on the practices within organizations. These practices are constituted by, but also produce, material, and social dynamics. This movement is currently having an important impact on the fields of management and organization studies. This second book is based on the 3 rd Organizations, Artefacts and Practices workshop 1 that took place at the London School of Economics in June 2013. This workshop was organized jointly by the Information Systems and Innovation Group in the Department of Management, and the Department of Accounting, both at the London School of Economics and the Groupe de Formation et Recherche in Management and Organization at the Université Paris-Dauphine. The workshop encompassed themes related to historical perspectives on materiality; historiographies, data, and materiality; social and material entanglements across time; information technology and materiality in organizations; measuring and accounting for time in organizations; space and time in organizations; theoretical and methodological perspectives on time in organizations; identity and materiality in organizations; accounting, time, and