Today‘s omnipresence of technology leads to individuals using similar technology inside and outside of organizations. We suggest that the aspects of this technological copresence might affect technology-induced organizational change processes. We argue that the implications for organizations will require new theories and appropriate methods. Sociomateriality represents a powerful lens to address the complexities of this issue. Based on Pickering‘s (1995) mangle of practice and Gidden’s Structuration Theory, we develop a lens, which we believe is an ap-propriate perspective to study this phenomenon. This perspective enables us to include em-ployees as nested entities within organizational boundaries and as individual agents outside organizational boundaries while making sense of social and material A case study in an or-ganization using Wiki technology is used to study the technological co-presence of an organi-zational Wiki and Wikipedia. We find that the cumulative history of Wikipedia strongly in-fluences the organizational Wiki’s performativity, through the mechanisms of resistance and accommodation, emerges into a different phenomenon over time.
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