Attempts to develop an integrated framework to examine operations of power have always been challenging yet necessary, particularly in the context of technology-based organizational change. This paper begins with a highlight of the theoretical mismatch in an integrated theoretical framework that...

Within the present context of globalization, the design of the IT system usually occurs in one country while its implementation takes place in several other countries. The implementing countries may have long-held time-related practices and understandings that contrast with the IT designing...

Recent developments in HCI affordance literature link the material and the discursive with a relational approach. Building on this, I explore the role of discursive power in the interactions in designer-user-technology trio. Using a year-long interpretive case study, I examine redesigning of a...

The implementation of ERP software into organizations is widely recognized as contentious with different groups often requesting customization of the standard product to meet their particular needs and interests. Various efforts aimed at influencing the discourse and framing related to the ERP...

Employees’ presence and associated visibility in a central workplace facilitate direct surveillance and exercise of normative controls through their participation in various organizational activities and discourses. Scholars argue that lack of such visibility and presence in telework...

We investigated how power distance beliefs shape attributions for group performance. Considerable research suggests that attributions for group performance may be focused either on (1) the contributions made by each individual member of the group or (2) the group as a whole. Yet to date there is...

This paper systematically explores the following under-examined question in social influence theories: can an individual’s sustained behavioral compliance in an organizing context lead to internalization of the values underpinning the behavior. Particular focus is on the context where the...

This study explores the link between telehomeworking and work intensification in the Information Technology sector in India. We adopted an interpretive approach and used in-depth interviews, supplemented with secondary data. Our analysis shows dominance of two shared interpretations among...

Small, informally organized retail grocery shops called kirana shops are ubiquitous in contemporary India and have historically existed as a dominant form of organizing in the Indian retail context. Despite increased competition from the relatively recent emergence of organized retail, kirana...

This study explores the link between telehomeworking and work intensification in the Information Technology sector in India. We adopted an interpretive approach and used in-depth interviews, supplemented with secondary data. Our analysis shows dominance of two shared interpretations among...