3 The whaling industry has a long history, beginning with drift whaling, and ending with an expansive industry reliant on deep-sea ventures. The industry was impacted through the years by competition among nations, changing demands for energy sources, the desire for luxury goods, and trade regulations, which resulted in highs and lows in profits. Whaling drew all types of men for employment at ...

The increasing diffusion of digital technologies throughout industries and aspects of life is transforming businesses even in areas that always have been dependent on physical materiality. In this paper, by conducting an exploratory Delphi study in collaboration with 19 industry experts, we aim to shed light on the specific managerial challenges associated with the impact of digital transformat...

This is a study of the phenomenon of pervasiveness of materiality of factors (including data and information) and their qualities in operations and the pervasiveness of their changes in decision situations. Research and practical endeavors in improving information quality identified a plethora of qualities to be accounted for, but usually they ignore their interdependencies, which taint the out...

In this Research-in-Progress paper, we explore a practice-based view of Enterprise System (ES) implementation. Drawing on Andrew Pickering’s “Mangle of Practice”, we discuss how an Enterprise System becomes a workable system over time through a dialectic of resistance and accommodation. Based on a longitudinal study of an ES implementation project in a global IT organization located in the U.S,...

Geographic analysis in rural areas has been dominated recent decades by socio-economic and socio-political perspectives. The new materialism can constitute a way of progress geographical studies that involve the material human form hybrid experiences. Materiality be expressed three ways: (1) surface matter corresponds to traditional elements space, (2) materiality would associated with joint un...

Many of Early Music’s readers will remember their first encounter with the journal. Mine took place in 1977 among stacks open shelves Cambridge University Library, not quite at start but nevertheless its early years publication. The volume I down from (with all four issues a year bound together) was surprisingly heavy, and an intriguingly different size—no other journal on shared dimensions. At...