A sociomaterial view of the scaffolding of work practices with information technology

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Leclerq, Aurelie ^a   Carugati, Andrea ^b   Giangreco, Antonio ^a   Da Cunha, Joao Vieira ^c   Jensen, Tina Blegind ^d  

^a IESEG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (France)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Improvisation; Mobile technology; Sociomateriality; Work practices

Indexed keywords

IMPROVISATION; MOBILE IT; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; SOCIOMATERIALITY; WORK PRACTICES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SCAFFOLDS;

TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84870960738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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