A threesome dance of agency: Mangling the socio-materiality of technological regimes in digital innovation

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Svahn, Fredrik ^a   Henfridsson, Ola ^b   Yoo, Youngjin ^c  

^a VIKTORIA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation; Service oriented architecture(SOA); Socio materiality; Software architecture; Software platform

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY RESEARCH; COMPONENT BASED; DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL MATERIALS; HUMAN AGENCY; INNOVATION PRACTICES; SERVICE ORIENTATION; SOCIO-MATERIALITY; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; TECHNOLOGICAL REGIME; TRADITIONAL INDUSTRY;

INFORMATION SERVICES; INNOVATION; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870957952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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