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Materiality and change: Challenges to building better theory about technology and organizing
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The authors argue that scholars have had difficulty grappling with materiality because they often conflate the distinction between the material and social with the distinctions between determinism and voluntarism, and outline four challenges that researchers must address before they can reconcile the reality of materiality with the notion that outcomes of technological change are socially constructed.About:
This article is published in Information and Organization.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 584 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Materiality (auditing) & Voluntarism (action).read more
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Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association
TL;DR: The use of social media technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networking sites, social tagging, and micro blogging is proliferating at an incredible pace as mentioned in this paper, and one area of increasing adoption is orga...
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When flexible routines meet flexible technologies: affordance, constraint, and the imbrication of human and material agencies
TL;DR: In this article, a human and material agency metaphor is used to suggest how a human agency approach to technology can usefully incorporate notions of material agency into its explanations of organizational change.
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Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities
TL;DR: It is argued that the fluctuations in tensions can provide an opportunity for knowledge collaboration when the community responds to these tensions in ways that encourage interactions to be generative rather than constrained.
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Computing in everyday life: a call for research on experiential computing
TL;DR: It is argued that the IS community must expand its intellectual boundaries by embracing experiential computing as an emerging field of inquiry in order to fill this growing intellectual void.
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The impact of information technology and transactive memory systems on knowledge sharing, application, and team performance: a field study
TL;DR: It is found that knowledge sharing has a positive impact on knowledge application, which in turn has a direct impact on team performance, and that organizations can improve team members' meta-knowledge of who knows what through the careful investment in information technology.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
John W. Meyer,Brian Rowan +1 more
TL;DR: Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules as discussed by the authors, and the elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and i...
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The Iron Caged Revisited : Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
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The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Walter W. Powell,Paul DiMaggio +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss points of convergence and disagreement with institutionally oriented research in economics and political science, and locate the "institutional" approach in relation to major developments in contemporary sociological theory.
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Institutions and Organizations
TL;DR: Early Institutionalists Constructed an Analytic Framework I Three Pillars of Institutions Constructing an Analytical Framework II Content, Agency, Carriers and Levels Institutional Construction, Maintenance and Diffusion Institutional Processes Affecting Societal Systems, Organizational Fields, and Organizational Populations Institutional processes Affecting Organizational Structure and Performance Institutional Change Looking Back, Looking Forward