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Download fileMaterial tools, strategic arenas and temporal openness: Emerging phenomena linking information systems and strategy practice research
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posted on 2017-04-07, 08:46 authored by Josh Morton, Alex Wilson, Louise CookeAn increasing interest in human actions and practices in the social sciences,
and in organizational and management literature, has led to a concentration
of such practices in strategy literature. This paper reviews how the practice turn
in social theory has influenced the information systems and strategy domains in
joint research ventures. In particular, there is a synergy between information systems
research and the strategy-as-practice domain, through growing interest in
the practice perspective in the IS field and technology foci in strategy work. We
focus on two broad research phenomena, where collaboration between the fields
continues to emerge, and where connections between information systems and
strategy work have been prominent in recent years. First, we review material tools
in strategy and the ‘arenas’ or spaces in which strategy practice occurs. We then
examine the emerging notion of openness in information technology-driven
forms of strategizing. In doing so, we highlight facets of potential collaboration
between IS and strategy researchers, and how this can encourage new novel research
encounters to be brought to the forefront in the study of materiality and
technologies in strategy.
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