Actor-network theory and information systems

✍ Scribed by Ole Hanseth; Margunn Aanestad; Marc Berg

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 135
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this editorial introduction Allen Lee’s definition of the information systems (IS) field is taken as the starting point: “Research in the information systems field examines more than just the technological system, or just the social system, or even the two systems side by side; in addition, it investigates the phenomena that emerge when the two interact” (Lee, A. “Editorial”, MISQ, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2001, p. iii). By emphasizing the last part of this, it is argued that actor-network theory (ANT) can provide IS research with unique and very powerful tools to help us overcome the current poor understanding of the information technology (IT) artifact (Orlikowski, W. and Iacono, S., “Research commentary: desperately seeking the ‘IT’ in IT research – a call for theorizing the IT artifact”, Information Systems Research, Vol. 10 No. 2, 2001, pp. 121-34). These tools include a broad range of concepts describing the interwoven relationships between the social.

✦ Subjects

Knowledge management. ; Information technology. ; Business networks.

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