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Faik, Isam, Barrett, Michael and Oborn, Eivor (2020) How information technology matters in societal change : an affordance-based institutional logics perspective. MIS Quarterly , 44 (3). pp. 1359-1390. doi:10.25300/MISQ/2020/14193 ISSN 0276-7783.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2020/14193
Abstract
While there has been much work on the relationship between Information Technology (IT) and organizational change, there has been limited research that theorizes the relationship between IT and societal change. This paper draws on institutional theory, in particular institutional logics, to develop a model of IT and societal change, which we argue is critical in an era of large scale digital transformation. Our approach is based on a view of society as an inter-institutional system, reflecting the multiplicity of logics at the societal level. We conceptualize societal change as shifts in the multiplicity of logics, with a focus on changes in the levels of centrality and compatibility. Our model relates these changes to the materiality of technology through the concept of IT affordances. We propose three mechanisms, namely sensegiving, translating, and decoupling, through which IT affordances become elements of societal change. We identify three corresponding carriers through which IT affordances gain scale and stability, namely objects, networks, and platforms. We discuss implications of our theoretical developments for future research on IT and societal change.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | MIS Quarterly | ||||||||
Publisher: | M I S Research Center | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0276-7783 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 44 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1359-1390 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.25300/MISQ/2020/14193 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 January 2020 | ||||||||
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