Mainstream discussions of research validity (truth, significance, objectivity) draw heavily on a certain “representational idiom” of science that assumes a knowledge – reality correspondence. However, for research on practices, rather than nature, such a knowledge-reality distinction is...

Infrastructure is widely regarded merely as a material (lifeless) system that brings together the activities of diverse practices. In contrast to this view, we propose that when infrastructure provides a site where practices are held at once both near and apart, life under the influence of these...

We argue that certain theoretical commitments that underpin much existing Inter-organisational Information Systems (IOIS) research at small scales become untenable when IOIS are studied at the scale of whole industries and over time periods greater than individual implementation projects. We...