What you see is what you get? A comparison of theoretical lenses to study technology in organizations

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 182-201

  Mueller, Benjamin ^a   Raeth, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

IT enabled change; Organizational change; Process theory; Sociomateriality; Structuration theory; Technological change; Theory; Theory building

Indexed keywords

IT-ENABLED CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; PROCESS THEORY; SOCIO MATERIALITIES; STRUCTURATION THEORY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; THEORY; THEORY BUILDING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84886533599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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