Beyond Interpretivism? New Encounters with Technology and Organization

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XX

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2. Keynotes and Invited Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. What if the Screens Went Black? The Coming of Software Agents

      • Karin Knorr Cetina

      Pages 3-16

   3. Thoughts on Movement, Growth and an Anthropologically-Sensitive IS/Organization Studies: An Imagined Correspondence with Tim Ingold

      • Tim Ingold, Lucas Introna, Donncha Kavanagh, Séamas Kelly, Wanda Orlikowski, Susan Scott

      Pages 17-32

3. Doing Process Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. From Substantialist to Process Metaphysics – Exploring Shifts in IS Research

      • Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic

      Pages 35-57

   3. Critical Realism and Actor-Network Theory/Deleuzian Thinking: A Critical Comparison in the Area of Information Systems, Technology and Organizational Studies

      • Chris McLean, Jeremy Aroles

      Pages 58-72

   4. Affordance Lost, Affordance Regained, and Affordance Surrendered

      • Divya Sharma, Biswatosh Saha, Uttam K. Sarkar

      Pages 73-89

4. Exploring Affect and Affordance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Ideological Materiality at Work: A Lacanian Approach

      • Edouard Pignot

      Pages 93-107

   3. Inscribing Individuals into a Formalized System: The “Labour” Performed by Affective Spaces

      • Alexandra Toll, Melissa Mazmanian

      Pages 108-124

   4. When Is an Affordance? Outlining Four Stances

      • Arto Lanamäki, Devinder Thapa, Karen Stendal

      Pages 125-139

5. Considering Communication and Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. A Relational Approach to Materiality and Organizing: The Case of a Creative Idea

      • Thomas Martine, François Cooren

      Pages 143-166

   3. Enactment or Performance? A Non-dualist Reading of Goffman

      • Ella Hafermalz, Kai Riemer, Sebastian Boell

      Pages 167-181

   4. Performing Cyborgian Identity: Enacting Agential Cuts in Second Life

      • Ulrike Schultze

      Pages 182-197

6. Examining Knowledge and Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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   2. Performing Research Validity: A “Mangle of Practice” Approach

      • Robert B. Johnston, Kai Reimers, Stefan Klein

      Pages 201-214

   3. Synthetic Situations in the Internet of Things

      • Elena Parmiggiani, Eric Monteiro, Thomas Østerlie

      Pages 215-228

   4. A Developmental Perspective to Studying Objects in Robotic Surgery

      • Laura Seppänen, Laure Kloetzer, Jarno Riikonen, Mikael Wahlström

      Pages 229-245

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2016.


The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: doing process research; exploring affect and affordance; considering communication and performance; and examining knowledge and practice.

• actor-network theory
• affective spaces
• affordances
• design science
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• information systems
• innovation
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• knowledge management systems
• performativity
• practice
• process
• semantics
• social media
• sociomateriality
• technology

• Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

  Lucas Introna

• University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  Donncha Kavanagh, Séamas Kelly

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Wanda Orlikowski

• London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom

  Susan Scott

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