Social Action, Materiality, and Power in Constructivist Studies of Technology and Organizing
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Taylor and Francis Ltd RAMA_A_465925.sgm 10.1080/19416521003654160 Academy of Management Annals 941-6520 (pri t)/1941-6067(online) Original rticle 2 10 & Francis 0 0 002010 P u Leo a di leonardi@no thwestern.edu Abstract Over the past two decades, organizational scholars have increasingly argued that technology’s affects on organizations are socially constructed. Constructivists who study implementation generally hold that organizational change emerges from an ongoing stream of social action in which people respond to a technology’s constraints and affordances, as well as to each other. Although most students of technology and organizing generally agree on the ontology of constructivism, there are considerable differences in what scholars mean when they say that a technology’s affects are socially constructed. We show that research on the social construction of implementation clusters into five coherent perspectives, which we call perception , interpretation , appropriation ,
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تاریخ انتشار 2010