The following article suggests a critical realistic framework, which aims at modeling sociotechnical change linked to end-users' IT appropriation: the "archetypal approach". The basic situations it includes (the "sociotechnical archetypes"), and the possible appropriative trajectories that...

This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points out some specific features of sociologists and Information Systems scientists in their conceptualization of Information Technology (IT). It shows that both academic fields...

D’où vient la notion d’information ? Comment a évolué sur le long terme le rapport à l’information des individus impliqués dans une action collective ? En s’appuyant sur une perspective généalogique, cet essai est l’occasion de revenir sur la genèse de l’information et de...

In their Organizing Vision model, Swanson and Ramiller called for more research on the relationship between inter-organizational “authorized” (legitimated) discourse on IT and organizational practices. In this paper, the research question is focused on national differences in the way...

Aux côtés de l'armée, les premières organisations ont été, pour beaucoup d'entre elles, de nature religieuse, ou en tous cas imprégnées de considérations religieuses. Les premières pratiques d'animation et de finalisation de l'action collective ont plus généralement été marquées...

Purpose – This paper investigates how Information Systems (IS) researchers apply institutional theoretical frameworks. The purpose of this paper is to explore the operationalization of meta-theoretical frameworks for empirical research which can often present difficulties in IS research. The...

Computers and software occupy an ever bigger place in an organization’s activities. Studying the social dynamics of their uses has thus become a major preoccupation for the social sciences. An overview of recent studies, in particular “structurationist” research, on this subject is...

This article puts forwards a “reorientationist” perspective about the genealogy of collective action and artefacts deployed for its orientation. It draws on the history of religion and religious organizations as elaborated by several promoters of the so-called “new history” in France....

In this paper, we attempt to integrate the traditionally disparate concepts of technology design, use and organizational practice in organizational studies. Using Jean-Daniel Reynaud’s joint-regulation theory, we demonstrate how these traditionally separate perspectives on ICT-related practice...

In the IS field there has been an ongoing tradition to study the publication output of the community in order to evaluate the current and potential situation of IS research. In this work, we follow a different strategy and study what IS research claims to be. We look at those so-called 'espoused...