Researching digitalized work arrangements: A Laws of Form perspective

IF 5.7 2区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE Information and Organization Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2022.100391
Sven-V. Rehm , Lakshmi Goel , Iris Junglas
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Advances in digitalization have changed our apprehension of technology from discrete devices and application software as bounded artifacts, to dynamically evolving social-material entanglements in Digitalized Work Arrangements (DWA). This development makes studying DWAs increasingly difficult and challenges us to advance our methods that define how we can study, observe, and conceptualize DWAs. In this essay, we draw on the mathematical-logical formalism of the Laws of Form (LoF) (Spencer-Brown, 1969) to analyze how six illustrative IS studies conceptualize the social and the material to arrive at distinct perspectives on DWAs. Our analysis reveals three archetypes that capture these studies' conceptualizations and that inform a discussion of how IS research can extend qualitative methods beyond those six works. We offer two contributions. First, we provide novel insights and explanations to key conceptualizations in the study of DWAs. Second, we present the LoF as a pre-ontological and pre-theoretical formalism that enables commensurability of methods and development of novel qualitative empirical methods. Specifically, we demonstrate how the formalism helps articulating the distinctions we draw to refine our object of study and to critically examine and reconstruct other researchers' reasoning.

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研究数字化工作安排:形式规律的视角
数字化的进步已经改变了我们对技术的理解,从作为有界工件的离散设备和应用软件,到数字化工作安排(DWA)中动态发展的社会-物质纠缠。这种发展使得研究dwa变得越来越困难,并挑战我们改进我们的方法,定义我们如何研究、观察和概念化dwa。在本文中,我们借鉴了形式法则(LoF)的数学-逻辑形式主义(Spencer-Brown, 1969)来分析六个说明性信息系统研究如何概念化社会和材料,从而得出关于DWAs的不同观点。我们的分析揭示了三个原型,这些原型捕捉了这些研究的概念化,并为讨论IS研究如何将定性方法扩展到这六个作品之外提供了信息。我们提供两种贡献。首先,我们对dwa研究中的关键概念提供了新的见解和解释。其次,我们提出LoF作为一个前本体论和前理论的形式主义,使方法的通约性和新的定性经验方法的发展。具体来说,我们展示了形式主义如何帮助阐明我们所描绘的区别,以完善我们的研究对象,并批判性地检查和重建其他研究人员的推理。
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期刊介绍: Advances in information and communication technologies are associated with a wide and increasing range of social consequences, which are experienced by individuals, work groups, organizations, interorganizational networks, and societies at large. Information technologies are implicated in all industries and in public as well as private enterprises. Understanding the relationships between information technologies and social organization is an increasingly important and urgent social and scholarly concern in many disciplinary fields.Information and Organization seeks to publish original scholarly articles on the relationships between information technologies and social organization. It seeks a scholarly understanding that is based on empirical research and relevant theory.
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