Materiality, Rules and Regulation: New Trend in Management and Organization Studies explores in different ways and instances how material artefacts are able to inscribe and enforce
regulation, thus vicariously replacing formal (textual) norms and rules, or direct supervision. Various approaches that can bring valuable insights on the topic such as Marxism,
institutionalism, neo-institutionalism, process studies, regulation sociology and affordance literature are represented in this book from a micro-perspective on organizations and the material
underpinnings of regulation. The focus is therefore on how new mediations are enacted and a new institutional and environment takes shape, where administrative action and regulation assume
new features. As a consequence of multiple mediations, new composite entities emerge.
