Digital Organizations Manufacturing : Scripts, Performativity and Semiopolitics

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Manufacturing the Organization, Manufacturing Scripts -- 1.1. Pragmatic sociology and the pragmatism of scripts -- 1.1.1. A few requirements -- 1.1.2. A few trials -- 1.1.3. Following the scripts in action -- 1.2. Setting the stage -- 1.2.1. Two gray suits at the Belmont bar -- 1.2.2. A parade of participants -- 1.3. Moeva "Beta": building a theatre of operations -- 1.3.1. The English temptation and the IBM test -- 1.3.2. "We want to think for ourselves!" -- 1.3.3. Writing the management script: its manufactured-manufacturing making -- 1.3.4. What happens in a recruiter's office? -- 1.4. Extension and celebration -- 1.4.1. Going forward, even blindly -- 1.4.2. Making newcomers into allies -- 1.4.3. The first debates -- 1.4.4. Self-glorification: setting the stage for September 2001 -- 1.5. Years of continuous developments and testing -- 1.5.1. The intranet mobility takes over the transformation of the modes of cooperation -- 1.5.2. Third identity and access policies -- 1.5.3. In search of external recognition -- 1.5.4. "Villepin's 100 days" -- 1.5.5. Conflicts and paths of rationalities -- 1.6. The designation and description of the scripts -- 1.6.1. Scripts put to the test of professional criticism -- 1.6.2. Naming and distinguishing scripts -- 1.7. Models -- 1.7.1. Cycles and dynamics -- 1.7.2. Other dynamics -- 2. Performation: Out of Bounds (and Beyond Language) -- 2.1. The question of performativity, at the heart of the production of digital organizations -- 2.1.1. Inheritance and openings -- 2.1.2. On the extension of performation -- 2.1.3. Performation: a discussion on the proposed configurations of M. Callon -- 2.2. Digital organizational assemblages: towards a general narratique -- 2.2.1. Stories: Theorico-orthodox and desirable performations.