Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices

The complex imbrications of ICT and society

ICT is deeply implicated in the shaping of the contemporary global socioeconomic conditions. Research in the information systems field is often confronted with emerging new opportunities, risks and dilemmas at the work place, the business firm or the government, as well as the economy and society at large. Such changes are the object of study in the social sciences and we have a lot to learn fr...

On cofinal submodels and first interstices

Genome Evolution: Groping in the Soil Interstices

Centipedes are a very old lineage of terrestrial animals. The first completely sequenced myriapod genome reveals that the blind centipede Strigamia maritima has no gene for light-sensory proteins, lacks the canonical circadian clock and possesses unusual features related to chemosensory perception.

Interstices: new work on legal spaces

What does it mean to talk about ‘legal spaces’; about law spatially and space legally? What is the research agenda that this volume announces, whose relevance it demonstrates, and whose methodology it showcases? The study of space in law insists first and foremost on the material world as essentially constitutive of law. In both the analytic and the continental traditions of jurisprudence, law ...

Debating Sociomateriality: Entanglements, imbrications, disentangling, and agential cuts

Sociomateriality is on everyone's lips these days. Since Orlikowski (2006; 2007; 2009), together with Scott (Orlikowski and Scott 2008; Scott and Orlikowski 2009) first introduced this term in organisation studies and in information systems (IS) research, we count an impressive number of contributions on this topic along with calls for papers in renowned journals and conferences. Without going ...