Shifting boundaries between individual and personal information systems: the case of parental caregiving

Aux frontières du système d'information individuel et personnel: le cas de l'aidance parentale

Anne-Laure Delaunay (), Lahmar Jamila () and Amélie Clauzel ()
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Anne-Laure Delaunay: LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - Université Paris-Saclay - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], IMT-BS - TIM - Département Technologies, Information & Management - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]
Lahmar Jamila: RITM - Réseaux Innovation Territoires et Mondialisation - Université Paris-Saclay
Amélie Clauzel: RITM - Réseaux Innovation Territoires et Mondialisation - Université Paris-Saclay

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Abstract: Information systems research has long focused on the individual. Yet it has not clarified the boundaries between an individual information system and a personal information system. These boundaries have become increasingly porous as technologies connect spheres that organizations and individuals once kept separate. This porosity raises major conceptual and practical issues. The case of parental caregiving in an extreme setting, pediatric cancer, illustrates it clearly. Drawing on thirty-seven semi-structured interviews and boundary theory, the article examines the dynamics between institutional and personal spheres. The findings show that boundaries between individual information systems and personal information systems undergo recomposition. They vary across permeability, flexibility, and segmentation. Peer interactions, which we describe as "peermeability," reshape these boundaries. This process sheds light on the sociomaterial nature of information systems. This research advances boundary theory by highlighting the role of peers and other actors in this boundary reconfiguration.

Keywords: Personal IS; Parental caregiving; Boundary Theory; Frontiers; Individual IS; Aidance parentale; Frontières; SI personnel; SI individuel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-05-20
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Published in AIM 2026 : 31ème conférence annuelle de l'Association Information et Management. "Aux frontières des systèmes d'information", Haute École spécialisée de Suisse occidentale = HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland = Fachhochschule Westschweiz [Schweiz] [HES-SO]; Association Information et Management (AIM), May 2026, Neuchâtel, Suisse

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