Trans-situated use of integrated information systems

Connecting Industry: Building and Sustaining a Practice-based Research Community

“…This requires us to go beyond studying single-site implementations, which only provide partial understanding, to examining the biography of such workplace technology [18] at different levels of analysis, in different locations and over multiple periods of time [18]- [20]. As Monteiro and Rolland [21] note, the study of such trans-situated use of technology requires us to extend contemporary practice-based research, which is largely local and situated, to also account for similarities in technologically mediated work practices across multiple contexts and timeframes. This requires a temporal view and ongoing access to ECS using organizations to be embedded into our practice-based research designs.…”

“…[26]- [28]; less attention has been directed towards understanding the longerterm impact on work practices and organizations. This calls for research designs that are sensitive to the situated, contextual nature of socio-technical change [19], [20], [25], [29] and look beyond initial adoption; following projects into the phases of post-implementation change [21], [30], [31] and requiring the participation of the key actors involved. A limitation of the current body of ECS research is that it contains few in-depth, longitudinal empirical cases enabling us to understand and theorize about the degrees of similarities (and differences) in use across contexts and how they are being achieved [21].…”

The Facets of Sociomateriality: A Systematic Mapping of Emerging Concepts and Definitions

“…A subset of the primary studies that we took into consideration contribute by figuring out the role of elements that are neither strictly human not technical, but have been often taken for granted or left lingering in the background in previous literature. For instance, a few studies underline the role of norms [48], human motivations in action [32], historical and cultural traditions [42], local/global contingencies [35,48,49].…”

“…In most of the cases found in the primary studies, the observed empirical phenomenon is a longitudinal stretching of work practices. Observations often unveil that modern work flows are spanning across several geographical locations but must follow either too generic or context-specific norms and process models [42,49], and are ultimately performed through situated, ad-hoc local practices [2,35]. The result of these observations is that a continuous "bouncing" effect is created between local and non-local (or global) concerns and the sociomaterial entanglements are therefore augmented not only along the space dimension, but also that of time.…”

Introducing public sector eIDs: The power of actors’ translations and institutional barriers

“…Orlikowski, 2007;Orlikowski & Scott, 2008) and although published in the research field of management and organization studies, this perspective has a significant impact and is frequently applied in ISR (e.g. Doolin & McLeod, 2012;Monteiro & Rolland, 2012;Svahn et al, 2009;Wagner et al, 2010). This perspective is categorized as being one of a relational ontology as opposed to the historically dominating substantialist ontology in ISR and management research.…”