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What You See Is What You Get? A Comparison of Theoretical Lenses to Study Technology in Organizations
Müller, Benjamin
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Räth, Philip
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URL:
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https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/What-you-see...
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Additional URL:
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http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2012/proceedings/Human...
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Document Type:
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Conference or workshop publication
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Year of publication:
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2012
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Book title:
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012)
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Page range:
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Paper 16
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Conference title:
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33. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012)
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Location of the conference venue:
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Orlando, Fla.
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Date of the conference:
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December 16-19, 2012
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Publisher:
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Huang, Ming-Hui
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Place of publication:
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Atlanta, Ga.
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Publishing house:
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AISeL
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ISBN:
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978-0-615-71843-9
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Institut für Enterprise Systems (InES)
Business School > Wirtschaftsinformatik IV (Mädche 2009-2015)
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Subject:
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330 Economics
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Keywords (English):
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Theory , Theory Building , IT-enabled change , Process Theory , Structuration Theory , Sociomateriality , Technological Change , Organizational Change
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Abstract:
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This paper investigates how the application of different theoretical lenses impacts theo-rizing on technology in organizations. Based on a case study of a corporate Wiki intro-duction, three theoretical lenses are applied as sensitizing devices: a process theoretical analysis based on the Enterprise Systems Experience Cycle (Markus and Tanis 2000), a structurational analysis based on technologies-in-practice (Orlikowski 2000), and a so-ciomaterial analysis based on the mangle of practice (Pickering 1995). The authors reflect upon their own experiences in applying these and present a comparison of their ob-servations. In doing so, the paper identifies and analyzes five emergent issues in theo-rizing across the three lenses: the role and nature of technology, technological change, changing practice, organizational change, and understanding stability. Similarities and differences among these three lenses are discussed and conclusions are drawn with re-spect to how what we as researchers see through our theoretical lenses determines what we will get in terms of theories. The paper thus presents other researchers with an op-portunity to reflect upon the authors’ experiences and supports the choice of an appro-priate theoretical lens for studying technology in organizations.
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Additional information:
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Online-Ressource
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