A Trichordal Temporal Approach to Digital Coordination: The Sociomaterial Mangling of the CERN Grid

The Socio-Technical Dimension of Inertia in Digital Transformations

“…In particular, macrolevel studies show that bias towards structural features. Current meso-level analyses of inertia, with two exceptions [i.e., 42,56], reflect a combination of both biases: the micro-level tendency towards a focus on relational properties as well as the macro-level bias towards emphasis of structural features of inertia.…”

“…More than 40% of the publications we inspected (12/28 in total) do not provide a precise outline of their understanding of the concept. Some of them superficially describe the term or refer to established definitions, without any explanation of the extent to which they draw from existing work for their conceptualization [56,61].…”

“…Macro-level studies investigate the (dis-) ability of organizational systems to adapt to changes in the external environment for efficiency and effectiveness [e.g., 20,48]. Meso-level studies combine or integrate a micro-and a macro-level perspective [e.g., 6,56]. Few of those studies go beyond mere consideration of micro-and macro-level dynamics in parallel and relate dynamics on either level to the other and investigate their interrelationships.…”

The Sociomaterialty of Information Systems: Current Status, Future Directions

“…This notwithstanding, Pickering's concept of the mangle of practice offers an innovative way to explore trajectories of human and material agency in practice and in the manner in which they are emergently transformed and "constitutively enmeshed by means of a dialectic of resistance and accommodation" (1993, p. 567). The mangle of practice is adopted and extended by Venters et al (2014) when they examine digital infrastructure emergence as an "unstable and evolving sociomaterial configuration" (p. 931).…”

Sociomaterial Practices: Challenges in Developing a Virtual Business Community Platform in Agriculture

“…Venters, Oborn and Barret (2014) developed the concept of digital coordination and proposed a trichordal temporal approach to temporal emergence in order to understand the development and use of digital infrastructure. Martini, Massa and Testa (2013) explored the relationship between human actors and technology in a social media platform developed by an industrial company.…”