RRTO 2013 - International workshop on Reinterpreting the relation between technology and organizations: A sociomaterial perspective

The increased flexibility of technologies and routines calls for new ways of organizing in which IT and organizations are inextricably interwoven. These emerging organizational changes in turn, call for alternative ways of analyzing change processes. Instead of traditional perspectives on IS such as the transactional or decision making perspective, or a technological or organizational imperative perspective, a growing body of IS research employs a sociomaterial perspective. Such as perspective acknowledges that material and human agencies are intertwined and that one cannot talk about a technology without reference to the social setting. One way to study the interconnection between material and human agencies, is through the lens of ‘affordances’, recognizing how the materiality of an object favors, shapes or invites as well as constrains new ways of working and organizing. The aim of the workshop is to discuss and present research papers on this interplay between technology and organizational change. We invite researchers and PhD students to join the discussion and present their papers and work in progress investigating new ways of working and organizing afforded by technology.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Technology affordances and constraints
Studying systems of imbrication
Practice based perspective on social media and web 2.0 Applications
Studying practices of online collaboration and virtual work
Workshop organizers
Marlous Agterberg is assistant professor in Knowledge, Information and Networks. Her research interests include (online) knowledge networks, participation and learning in new organizational forms, and managing emergent types of collaboration.
Andrea Carugati is an associate professor in Information Systems at the Århus School of Business and Social Sciences. His research interests include the management of information system development projects, project management in distributed organizations, knowledge exchange and the effect of boundary objects, and the interplay of IT, organizations, work practices and mental models.
Marleen Huysman is full professor of Knowledge and Organization, head of the KIN Research Group (www.kinresearch.nl) and of the department of Information Systems, Logistics and Innovation Management, VU University Amsterdam. Her teaching, research projects and international publications focuses on Information Technology and Organizational Change, Social Media, Social Capital, Management of Knowledge and Organizational Learning.
Bart van den Hooff is full professor of Organizational Communication and Information Systems at the at the VU University Amsterdam (KIN Research Group) in the Netherlands. His research focuses on the interaction between ICT and organization, knowledge sharing and retention, and distributed collaboration.
Contact person is Marlous Agterberg: m.agterberg-AT-vu.nl