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[ID#] 28 [Author(s)] Stephen S. Corea [Abstract] A major concern in contemporary IS research is the contextual shaping of IT-based work operations in organisations. Missing from recent theorising in this area has been a method based on systems thinking, with its correspondent benefits of integrative, inter-relational analysis. Drawing from socio-semiotic theory by Greimas and hermeneutics by Ricoeur, this paper presents a novel methodological framework of interpretive, systems-based sociotechnical analysis, for use in elucidating the emergent, context-specific nature of IT-related practices or innovation. This systems framework supports a multi-dimensional understanding of the interactions of heterogeneous elements and factors in organisational functioning, by representing those interactions in the form of systems of signification, characterised by oppositional relations. The nature and consequences of an organisation�s IT-based operations may thus be illuminated in terms of key tensions and contradictions, unique to its particular context, that shape the trajectory of its transformation, or that constitute a persistent gestalt in its functioning. This framework enables diagnosis of the contextual shaping of IS activity and transformation in organisations, as being constituted by distinct and often conflicting schemes of action and outcomes. [Title] 
Elucidating the Emergent Context of IT Based Innovation: An Interpretive Systems Framework.
UKAIS 2003: Abstracts
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