As both technologies and organizations undergo dramatic changes in
form and function, organizational researchers are increasingly turning
to concepts of innovation, emergence, and improvisation to help explain
the new ways of organizing and using technology evident in practice.
With a similar intent, I propose an extension to the structurational
perspective on technology that develops a practice lens to examine
how people, as they interact with a technology in their ongoing practices,
enact structures which shape their emergent and situated use of that
technology. Viewing the use of technology as a process of enactment
enables a deeper understanding of the constitutive role of social
practices in the ongoing use and change of technologies in the workplace.
After developing this lens, I offer an example of its use in research,
and then suggest some implications for the study of technology in
organizations.
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%1 Orlikowski:2000:os
%A Orlikowski, Wanda J.
%D 2000
%J Organization Science
%K imported thesis
%N 4
%P 404--428
%R 10.1287/orsc.11.4.404.14600
%T Using technology and constituting structures: A practice lens for
studying technology in organizations
%V 11
%X As both technologies and organizations undergo dramatic changes in
form and function, organizational researchers are increasingly turning
to concepts of innovation, emergence, and improvisation to help explain
the new ways of organizing and using technology evident in practice.
With a similar intent, I propose an extension to the structurational
perspective on technology that develops a practice lens to examine
how people, as they interact with a technology in their ongoing practices,
enact structures which shape their emergent and situated use of that
technology. Viewing the use of technology as a process of enactment
enables a deeper understanding of the constitutive role of social
practices in the ongoing use and change of technologies in the workplace.
After developing this lens, I offer an example of its use in research,
and then suggest some implications for the study of technology in
organizations.
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abstract = {As both technologies and organizations undergo dramatic changes in
form and function, organizational researchers are increasingly turning
to concepts of innovation, emergence, and improvisation to help explain
the new ways of organizing and using technology evident in practice.
With a similar intent, I propose an extension to the structurational
perspective on technology that develops a practice lens to examine
how people, as they interact with a technology in their ongoing practices,
enact structures which shape their emergent and situated use of that
technology. Viewing the use of technology as a process of enactment
enables a deeper understanding of the constitutive role of social
practices in the ongoing use and change of technologies in the workplace.
After developing this lens, I offer an example of its use in research,
and then suggest some implications for the study of technology in
organizations.},
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timestamp = {2017-03-16T11:54:14.000+0100},
title = {Using technology and constituting structures: A practice lens for
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volume = 11,
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