Materiality and change: Challenges to building better theory about technology and organizing

By Paul M. Leonardi, Stephen R. Barley. Information and organization, 2008

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

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An evidence-based review of HR Analytics (2017, neutral): “…frameworks: Diffusion of Innovation (Rogers 2003), Institutional theory/isomorphism(DiMaggio & Powell, 1983), Management theory of Fashions and Fads(Abrahamson, 1991, 2009), Technological Determinism and Sociomateriality (Leonardi & Barley, 2008; Marler & Fisher, 2013; Orlikowsk & Scott, 2008).”
Computing in Everyday Life: A Call for Research on Experiential Computing (2010, background): “2003; Rennecker 2002), bound by time and place (Boden and Molotch 1994; Robey and Jin 2004), and related to hardware (Leonardi and Barley 2008).”
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities (2011, background): “The use of peopleto-people relationships allows for immediate feedback, the ability to directly challenge assumptions, the opportunity to identify interdependencies, joint engagement in hermeneutic inquiry, open information sharing, development of common goals, and identification of a common…”
The emergence of (2016, background): “There is a developing body of research around the concept of affordances derived from the ecological psychology literature (Gibson 1977, Hutchby 2001, Leonardi and Barley 2008, Markus and Silver 2008, Leonardi 2010, 2011).”
When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies (2011, neutral): “On the other hand, proponents of the human agency approach are uncomfortable with actor–network theorists' belief in the equivalence and interchangeability of human and material agency (Chae and Poole 2005; Leonardi and Barley 2008).”
Digital innovation and transformation: An institutional perspective (2018, positive): “…physical materiality, thereby enabling, constraining, but also interwoven with, human action (Altman, Tushman, & Nagle, 2015; Flyverbom, Leonardi, Stohl, & Stohl, 2016; Lakhani, Lifshitz-Assaf, & Tushman, 2013; Leonardi & Barley, 2008; Loebbecke & Picot, 2015; Yoo, Henfridsson, & Lyytinen, 2010).”
Routines Revisited: Exploring the Capabilities and Practice Perspectives (2011, background): “While practice theorists stress that artifacts have different degrees of malleability (Leonardi & Barley, 2008 ; Orlikowski, 2007 ; Volkoff, Strong, & Elmes, 2007 ), work on routines from this perspective often fails to specify the conditions that surround the use of particular artifacts in parti”
Reconfiguring Boundary Relations: Robotic Innovations in Pharmacy Work (2012, background): “In line with calls for greater attention to materiality in organization studies (Leonardi and Barley 2008, Orlikowski 2007, Orlikowski and Scott 2008), they argue that boundary-spanning is a complex socio-technical activity producing new sociotechnical ensembles that influence organizational…”
Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory (2015, background): “With a stronger focus on the materiality of technologies, “we should be able to speak more precisely about why people do the things they do with technology” (Leonardi & Barley, 2008, p. 172).”
Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research (2017, background): “…researchers because it suggests that neither materiality (e.g., an object) nor a constructivist view (e.g., human agency) are sufficient to explain technology use (Leonardi & Barley, 2008), and advocates focusing on relational actions that occur among people and technologies (Faraj & Azad, 2012).”
The Time and Space of Materiality in Organizations and the Natural Environment (2013, background): “Prior work on sociomateriality argues that social and material worlds are mutually constituted (Leonardi & Barley, 2008; Orlikowski, 2007; Scott & Orlikowski, 2011).”
Artifacts that organize: Delegation in the distributed organization (2013, background): “…to the fore, and marks a contribution to ongoing organizational and social scientific efforts to think the “technical and the social together” (Leonardi & Barley, 2008; Orlikowski, 2007), including around such key organizational questions as trust (Knights, Noble, Vurdubakis, & Willmott,…”
Institutional Work as Logics Shift: The Case of Intel’s Transformation to Platform Leader (2013, background): “As Leonardi and Barley (2008) suggest, this does not imply a return to technological determinism but, rather, that ‘the social and the material are constitutively entangled, and inextricably related’ (Orlikowski, 2007, p. 1437).”
E-mail as a Source and Symbol of Stress (2011, background): “Key words : e-mail; stress; work–life; coping; communication technologies History : Published online in Articles in Advance September 30, 2010.”