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Baptista, João, Wilson, Alex and Galliers, Robert (2021) Instantiation : re-conceptualising the role of technology as a carrier of organisational strategising. Journal of Information Technology, 36 (2). pp. 109-127. doi:10.1177/0268396220988550 ISSN 0268-3962.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0268396220988550
Abstract
Technology is often used by senior management as an instrument to deliver strategy by influencing day-to-day activities within organisations. We study how local teams appropriate strategy through the use of technology, specifically in instances where it is rigid and single purposed. We show that technology has the potential to act as a carrier of strategic intent. We theorise local practices of appropriation of strategic intent by conceptualising the role of technology in ‘instantiation’, a notion adopted within the strategy-as-practice literature to explain how localised micro events directly constitute higher-level business outcomes such as those that arise from strategy. Through an in-depth case study following the use of passenger self-service kiosks in a UK airport over a period of 20 months, we review the strategic drivers at the top of the organisation and the central role of technology as the delivery mechanism of strategy. We focus on emergent strategising activity by local teams on the ground. Our main theoretical contributions are thus to extend the concept of instantiation to Information Systems studies and to conceptualise technology as a carrier of strategy, particularly in explaining how technology can embed strategic intent (structural strategising) and then influence the emergence of local practices consistent with these objectives (emergent strategising). We find and conceptualise how local practices instantiate strategic intent by decoupling, reframing and then recoupling new logics of work to achieve the aims set out in the organisation’s strategy.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor T Technology > T Technology (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Information resources management, Service industries -- Technological innovations , Operations research, Information technology, Strategic planning, Management information systems | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Information Technology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0268-3962 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 June 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 36 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 109-127 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0268396220988550 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Baptista, João, Wilson, Alex and Galliers, Robert (2021) Instantiation : re-conceptualising the role of technology as a carrier of organisational strategising. Journal of Information Technology . (In Press) Copyright © 2021 Association for Information Technology Trust 2021. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0268396220988550 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © Association for Information Technology Trust 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 December 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 December 2020 | ||||||||
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