From De-materialization to Re-materialization: A Social Dynamics Approach to New Ways of Working

For several decades, a large number of work transformations have taken place in our societies, inter alia globalization, flexibilization, digitaliza- tion or virtualization (Huws, 2014). These changes contributed to the emergence of New Ways of Working (NWW) (Taskin, Ajzen, & Donis, 2017). Among the practices associated to NWW (Ajzen, Donis, & Taskin, 2015), telework has been of great interest for scholars who ques- tioned the effects of such practices on organizational outcomes. However, these effects remain diversified and mostly unexplained (De Menezes & Kelliher, 2011; Martin & MacDonnell, 2012). For instance, little is known about the social dynamics that occur from the introduction of teleworking practices to their effective uses by social actors. To do so, this chapter aims to reintroduce the political dimension underlying these social dynamics by questioning how the implementation of teleworking...