In this paper, we attempt to integrate the traditionally disparate concepts of technology design, use and organizational practice in organizational studies. Using Jean-Daniel Reynaud’s joint-regulation theory, we demonstrate how these traditionally separate perspectives on ICT-related practice...

In the IS field there has been an ongoing tradition to study the publication output of the community in order to evaluate the current and potential situation of IS research. In this work, we follow a different strategy and study what IS research claims to be. We look at those so-called 'espoused...

Claudio Ciborra est un auteur majeur de la théorie des organisations et des systèmes d'information anglo-saxons. Ses travaux sont cependant relativement méconnus dans le champ francophone des sciences de gestion. Nous proposons ici de résumer l'essentiel de ses recherches et de montrer en...

The development of theoretical contributions is extensively discussed in management research. However, the processes of developing theories and their relationships to the processes of submitting. Reviewing and revising papers are relatively neglected, in particular in MIS. Work has already been...

Critical realism is a subject of growing interest in the IS literature. This article aims at implementing a critical realist framework: Margaret Archer's (2003) internal conversation theory. As a contemporary sociologist, Archer suggests both a general vision of social practice and a typology of...

Most research on structuration or the appropriation of ICT in organizations has put aside the problem of dyschronies. It has not taken into account the differences in nature, speed, and temporality of changes that co-exist within an organization. To address this limitation, the author of this...