When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies
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When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies
Paul LeonardiNorthwestern University
Imbrication: MISQ 2011
1950s
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1950s 1980s
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1980s
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1950s 1980s 2000s
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2000s
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Routines: Patterns of Action. Action involves people interacting with other people and with technologies.
Technologies (in-practice): How people enroll technology into their routines. People follow routines when designing technologies and they use technologies to carry out routines
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Human Agency
Material Agency
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Human Agency:Practice of forming and attempting to realize one’s goals
Material Agency:Capacity of nonhuman entities to act on their own, apart from human intervention
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Process of Organizing:
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Imbrication:Arrangement of distinct elements in overlapping patterns so they function interdependently
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Time
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Perceptual Construction as Mechanism for ImbricationWithin the framework established by previous imbrications, people construct perceptions of whether they need to change their goals or change the the materials with which they work
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Perception of Affordance
= Change in Routine
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Perception of Affordance
Perception of Constraint
= Change in Tech= Change in Routine
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Perception of Constraint
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Implications for Process Research
• To understand process, we need to understand:• People’s interactions with people• People’s interaction with things• (maybe) Things interaction with things
• Process research requires “zooming”• Scaling up from observations to frameworks
• Process research requires iterations of data analysis• Revised research design• Revised approach to analysis• Revised approach to writing up methods