On the methodological and philosophical challenges of sociomaterial theorizing: An overview of competing conceptualizations

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 845-852

  Mueller, Benjamin ^a   Raeth, Philip ^a   Faraj, Samer ^b   Kautz, Karlheinz ^c   Robey, Daniel ^d   Schultze, Ulrike ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Department of Informatics ^*  (Denmark)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Materiality; Methodology; Ontology; Sociomateriality; Theory building

Indexed keywords

EPISTEMOLOGY; MATERIALITY; METHODOLOGY; SOCIO MATERIALITIES; THEORY BUILDING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84886484306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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