When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies

By Paul M. Leonardi. MIS Q., 2011

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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The emergence of (2016, methodology): “ANT has been applied extensively elsewhere (Briers and Chua 2001, Jones and Dugdale 2002, Ezzamel, et al. 2004, Leonardi 2011, Pollock and D’Adderio 2012, Guilloux et al. 2013) but not in relation to the emergence of private sector accounting standard setters.”
Gamification in the Workplace: The Central Role of the Aesthetic Experience (2017, background): “The central tenet of affordance theory is that technological capabilities do not exist in a specific technological function or feature, but rather exist as part of the relationship between a user and technological artifacts in a specific situation [48].”
The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age: Introduction (2016, background): “…the imbrication of human agency (people’s goals) and material agency (the things a technology’s materiality allow or do not), individuals construct perceptions of a technology’s action possibilities—they decide what the technology affords them the ability to do or to not do (Leonardi, 2011).”
Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (2015, background): “The way affordance is used within the communication technology literature is most often as qualities, features, or cues within a technology (e.g. Aakhus, 2007; Graves, 2007; Leonardi, 2011; Postigo, 2014).”
Theory of Workarounds (2014, background): “The impact of workarounds on technology adaptation and usage is quite significant, but may be understated in literature that highlights other topics such as appropriation of technology in local situations [Barley, 1990; Tyre and Orlikowski, 1994; Orlikowski, 2000; Boudreau and Robey, 2005]; postimpl”
Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Technology affordances and constraints theory (Gibson, 1979; Leonardi, 2011; Majchrzak & Markus, 2014) offers a promising lens to investigate this.”
Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing Innovation Management Research in a Digital World (2017, background): “Technology affordances and constraints theory (Gibson 1979; Leonardi 2011; Majchrzak and Markus 2013; Markus and Silver 2008; Treem and Leonardi 2012) offers a promising lens that is particularly well suited to help IS scholars build new theories in this regard.”
Beyond Constraining and Enabling: Toward New Microfoundations for Institutional Theory (2017, positive): “Infact, theviewofstructureasconstrainingandenabling actionhasinformedseveralstrandsoforganization theory,suchastechnology(DeSanctis&Poole,1994; Leonardi,2011;Orlikowski,1992,2000),practice theory(Feldman&Orlikowski,2011;Nicolini,2013), andorganizationalroutines(Feldman&Pentland,…”
Information Technology and Product/Service Innovation: A Brief Assessment and Some Suggestions for Future Research (2013, background): “Another set of studies (e.g., Bailey, Leonardi, & Barley, 2012; Leonardi, 2011) show that the impact of digital tools on innovation routines and processes are often dynamic, unpredictable, and not always positive.”
Research Perspectives: The Anatomy of a Design Principle (2020, methodology): “Affordances describe relationships between humans and technical objects and have been used to describe what potential actions technologies provide to users and groups of users in their context of use (Leonardi, 2011; Markus & Silver, 2008).”
How Big Data Analytics Enables Service Innovation: Materiality, Affordance, and the Individualization of Service (2018, background): “to create customer value? Next, we discuss the concepts of materiality and affordances, which provide a lexiconwith which to theorize about how the material features of digital technologies are complicit in accomplishing change [21].”
The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing (2013, positive): “The concept of an affordance refers to the action potential that can be taken given a technology (Gibson, 1979; Hutchby, 2001; Leonardi, 2011; Majchrzak & Markus, 2013).”
Questioning Big Data: Crowdsourcing crisis data towards an inclusive humanitarian response (2016, background): “development studies (Avgerou, 2008) and organization sciences (Leonardi, 2011).”