The algorithm and the crowd: Considering the materiality of service innovation

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 201-216

  Orlikowski, Wanda J ^a   Scott, Susan V ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Crowds; Innovation; Materiality; Performativity; Practice; Sociomateriality

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION;

CROWDS; MATERIALITY; PERFORMATIVITY; PRACTICE; SOCIO MATERIALITIES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84937033444     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2015/39.1.09     Document Type: Article

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