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Crossing the Implementation Line

其他書名	The Mutual Constitution of Technology and Organizing Across Development and Use Activities
出版	SSRN, 2015
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5dHizwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A growing number of studies suggest that technological change and organizational change must be closely linked at the microsocial level of analysis. This is because technologies become constitutive features of the organizing process when they are marshaled in communicative interaction and the organizing process becomes a constitutive feature of technologies when it shapes the form and function of newly developed artifacts. However, most extant research has explicitly linked technological change to activities surrounding a technology's development and organizational change to activities surrounding a technology's use. This paper suggests that when researchers view technological and organizational change as discontinuous events separated by the act of implementation they discredit the important role that organizations play in the development of technologies and that the material features of technologies play in the process of organizing. To overcome this empirically inaccurate tendency we must cross the artificial empirical and theoretical divide, which I term the implementation line, existing between our studies of technology development and use. In so doing, I outline a framework that treats technological and organizational change as mutually constitutive in nature. I conclude by suggesting that organizational communication researchers are uniquely positioned to study the mutual constitution of technology and organizing and suggest several avenues for investigating the interrelations between these phenomena.