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There are multiple ways in which the problematic nexus between materiality and rule can be addressed, and multiple reasons to do so. A few incomplete thoughts on the gruelling case of business (on the materiality of its rules but also on its matter proper) are offered in this chapter. How can this multifarious object of inquiry confront the problems of matter, materiality, materials and materialism? What is the matter of business anyway? A possibly useful answer would need to try to hold business matter and business form together.
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Muniesa, F. (2015). The Matter of Business. In: de Vaujany, FX., Mitev, N., Lanzara, G.F., Mukherjee, A. (eds) Materiality, Rules and Regulation. Technology, Work and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137552648_6
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