Socio-Materiality as Lens to Study IT Driven Change

A. Carugati (), C. Morelli () and A. Giangreco ()
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A. Carugati: University of Århus
C. Morelli: Università Amedeo Avogadro e Università Carlo Cattaneo
A. Giangreco: Catholic University of Lille

A chapter in Information Systems: People, Organizations, Institutions, and Technologies, 2009, pp 441-449 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper reports the findings of a research into change during the constitution of an IT Group. Our main findings show that when an IT company acquires two similar companies, IT becomes a central part of the change program, differing from other change cases where IT is considered a peripheral component. We use the scaffold metaphor by Orlikowski [1] as a framework to interpret the case study. Our study is a primer in the use of socio-materiality as framework for interpreting IT-driven change and shows that this framework can highlight the most common characteristics of change while remaining practical and synthetic.

Keywords: Material Characteristic; Change Program; Magic Bullet; Information System Research; Change Case (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2148-2_51

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