Year
2013
Abstract
This chapter studies the complex instrumental systems which influence not only the local characteristics of activity but all its organizational characteristics. The relationship of such instruments with activity, defined as “architextures”, is analyzed through the lenses of pragmatist semiotics, in particular the concepts of “index” and “symbol”. It is illustrated by two examples of management systems mediating activity, one in an indexical way, the other in a symbolic way.
LORINO, P. (2013). Management Systems as Organizational ‘Architextures’. Dans: Materiality and Space: Organizations, Artefacts and Practices. 1st ed. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 62-95.