New Ways of Working

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 configuration. 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 the 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.

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.