In their Organizing Vision model, Swanson and Ramiller called for more research on the relationship between inter-organizational “authorized” (legitimated) discourse on IT and organizational practices. In this paper, the research question is focused on national differences in the way...

Various evaluation methods are offered by IS researchers, adopting either a causalist or a processual perspective. Some are focused on strategic addedvalues, whereas others suggest a more operational stance. From a strategic point of view, it seems that there are no systematic techniques to...

Aux côtés de l'armée, les premières organisations ont été, pour beaucoup d'entre elles, de nature religieuse, ou en tous cas imprégnées de considérations religieuses. Les premières pratiques d'animation et de finalisation de l'action collective ont plus généralement été marquées...

This paper examines the fabric of authorized discourses about Information Technology (IT), i.e. of “organizing visions” (OVs), through the investigation of the discourses, practices, and sociomaterial contexts that make up their micro-social underpinnings. The case of a trade show allows us...

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work. It concentrates on organizational practices and pulls together three separate domains that are rarely looked at together: sociomateriality,...

Information technology (IT) extensively regulates organizational processes in contemporary organizations by allowing or preventing behaviors —either to the benefit or detriment of the organization. Yet regulatory processes that create, maintain, and enforce rules in IT-rich contexts have not...

Sociomaterial research overcomes the dichotomy between social and material worlds by concentrating on organizational practices. These practices are constituted by, but also produce, material and social dynamics. This research is currently having an important impact in management studies and...

De nombreuses théories ont été développées par les chercheurs en systèmes d'information. Elles permettent de mieux comprendre la conception et l'usage des SI. Elles servent également, pour certaines, à diagnostiquer ces systèmes, à les évaluer et à mieux les piloter. Les grandes...

Purpose – This paper investigates how Information Systems (IS) researchers apply institutional theoretical frameworks. The purpose of this paper is to explore the operationalization of meta-theoretical frameworks for empirical research which can often present difficulties in IS research. The...