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Co-orienting the object : an activity theoretical analysis of a public report on the UK’s National Program for IT

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Constantinides, Panos and Blackler, Frank (2008) Co-orienting the object : an activity theoretical analysis of a public report on the UK’s National Program for IT. In: Barrett, Michael I. and Davidson, E. and Middleton, C. and DeGross, J., (eds.) Information technology in the service economy : challenges and possibilities for the 21st century : IFIP TC8 WG8.2 International Working Conference, August 10-13, 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. International Federation for Information Processing (267). New York, NY: Springer, pp. 259-270. ISBN 9780387097688

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_18

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Abstract

This paper contributes to research on the success and failure of information and communication technologies (ICT) by focusing on the learning processes associated with the development of new ICT projects and the way they challenge and extend familiar organizational limits. Drawing on recent developments in activity theory, we provide an analysis of oral and written evidence taken before a House of Commons Committee in relation to the UK’s National Program for IT (NPfIT). Our preliminary findings point to the ways in which new objects of activity such as the NPfIT can emerge from the meeting of contrasting forms of discursive activity, as well as how new policy insights can be translated into new organizational practices. We conclude with some implications for further research.

Item Type: Book Item
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Series Name: International Federation for Information Processing
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: New York, NY
ISBN: 9780387097688
Book Title: Information technology in the service economy : challenges and possibilities for the 21st century : IFIP TC8 WG8.2 International Working Conference, August 10-13, 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Editor: Barrett, Michael I. and Davidson, E. and Middleton, C. and DeGross, J.
Official Date: 2008
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Number: 267
Number of Pages: 388
Page Range: pp. 259-270
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09768-8_18
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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