Toward generalizable sociomaterial inquiry: A computational approach for zooming in and out of sociomaterial routines

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 849-871

  Gaskin, James ^a   Berente, Nicholas ^b   Lyytinen, Kalle ^c   Yoo, Youngjin ^d  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational social science; Generative grammar; Lexical notation; Lexicon; Methodology; Mixed methods; Organizational routines; Rational reconstruction; Routines; Sequence analysis; Sociomaterial; Sociotechnical

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; GENERATIVE GRAMMAR; LEXICAL NOTATION; LEXICON; METHODOLOGY; MIXED METHOD; ORGANIZATIONAL ROUTINES; RATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION; ROUTINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOCIOMATERIAL; SOCIOTECHNICAL;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 84918815083     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2014/38.3.10     Document Type: Article

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