Materiality and change: Challenges to building better theory about technology and organizing

Catch Me If You Can: Technological Constraints/Affordances and Mindfulness during Collaborative Police Emergency Response

“…Affordances by definition are sociomaterial as they emerge from the entanglement between social and material in practice [14,23].…”

More than meets the eye: working around technology in cross-boundary work contexts

“…While current research emphasizes human agency in relation to technology use in contexts of change (e.g. Balogun and Johnson, 2005;Leonardi and Barley, 2008;Orlikowski and Scott, 2008), few studies have examined the influence of cross-boundary work contexts on the interpretation and enactment of technology (e.g. Levina and Vaast, 2006).…”

“…In crossboundary work contexts, avoidance can therefore affect structure and action in relation to technology use in disruptive routines (Novak et al, 2012). As such, avoidance provides the psychological transition for actors to realign their cognitive orientation towards technology use often resulting in unintended consequences through improvisation (Leonardi and Barley, 2008 Boudreau and Robey's (2005) reference of productive interpretation resulting from inertia of enactment. We extend this perspective by suggesting that transitional cognitive orientation, demonstrated through the interplay of iterational and projective modes, creates productive tensions that allow actors to disengage from their inertia to improvise in order to sustain cross-boundary work practice (c.f.…”

Knowledge management technology-in-practice: a social constructionist analysis of the introduction and use of knowledge management systems

“…Focusing on these affordances and constraints attends to the demand to directly address the means by which specific features of a technology become entangled in the social practices of individuals undertaking knowledge work (Pickering 1995;KnorrCetina 1999;Leonardi and Barley 2008). In addition, it focuses the analysis on new things enabled by KMT, and not simply on their role in replicating existing knowledge practices (Karat, Karat et al 2000;Zammuto, Griffith et al 2007).…”