Information technology, materiality, and organizational change: A professional Odyssey

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 379-398

  Robey, Daniel ^a   Anderson, Chad ^b   Raymond, Benoit ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordances; Information technology; Material agency; Materiality; Organizational change; Socio technical; Sociomateriality

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

AFFORDANCES; MATERIALITY; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; SOCIO MATERIALITIES; SOCIOTECHNICAL;

WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84880753887     PISSN: 15369323     EISSN: 15583457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00337     Document Type: Article

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