Affordance theory in the IS discipline: A review and synthesis of the literature

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pozzi, Giulia ^a   Pigni, Federico ^b   Vitari, Claudio ^b  

^a ENS Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 PSL USPC)   (France)

^b GRENOBLE ECOLE DE MANAGEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Affordance's theory; Affordances; Literature review

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE;

AFFORDANCE THEORIES; AFFORDANCES; CURRENT LIMITATION; IS DISCIPLINES; IT ARTEFACT; LITERATURE MODELS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; ORGANIZATION STUDIES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905977829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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