Double-edged Social Mechanisms at Work in the 21st Century IS: Opportunities and Challenges

Louise Harder Fischer

Double-edged Social Mechanisms at Work in the 21st Century IS: Opportunities and Challenges

Louise Harder Fischer

IT University of Copenhagen

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Abstract

A long hold explanation in IS-Research is that any change in the Information System (IS), through the introduction of new IT-artefacts, trigger a chain of events leading to institutionalized routines and synchronized social practices. This explanation no longer covers the dynamic outcomes in the work-place set in motion by different types of IT-artefacts. We adopt a critical realist philosophy that entails to illuminate how IT-artefacts trigger social mechanisms in the human enterprise. We review IS-literature on the IT-artefact phenomenon from 2001 and forward. We find that the mechanism of individualization is forcefully triggered by new generative IT-artefacts, while enterprise IT-artefacts trigger institutionalization and socialization. We critically asses the opportunities and challenges this present for managers and designers when managing an IS that holds both types of artefacts. We draw a conceptual model of the now dual-IS, with double-edged mechanisms, that correspondingly can empower ambidextrous organizational forms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	PACIS 2018 Proceedings
Editors	Motonari Tanabu, Dai Senoo
Number of pages	14
Place of Publication	Atlanta, GA
Publisher	Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date	Jun 2018
Publication status	Published - Jun 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	The 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. PACIS 2018 - Yokohama Royal Park Hotel, Yokohama, Japan Duration: 26 Jun 2018 → 30 Jun 2018 Conference number: 22 http://pacis2018.org/

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Conference	The 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. PACIS 2018
Number	22
Location	Yokohama Royal Park Hotel
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	26/06/2018 → 30/06/2018
Sponsor	Association for Information Systems
Internet address	http://pacis2018.org/

Keywords

IT-artefacts
Enterprise IT-artefacts
Generative IT-artefacts
Social mechanisms
Critical realism
Dual-IS

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Fischer, LH 2018, Double-edged Social Mechanisms at Work in the 21st Century IS: Opportunities and Challenges. in M Tanabu & D Senoo (eds), PACIS 2018 Proceedings. Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), Atlanta, GA, The 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. PACIS 2018, Yokohama, Japan, 26/06/2018. <http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1241&context=pacis2018>

Double-edged Social Mechanisms at Work in the 21st Century IS: Opportunities and Challenges. / Fischer, Louise Harder.
PACIS 2018 Proceedings. ed. / Motonari Tanabu; Dai Senoo. Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2018.

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