Configuring the user - The case of Grid computing
Journal
Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
ISSN
0896-7911
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2007-08-30
Author(s)
Abstract
From a semiotic point of view, we observe that technologies can increasingly be "authored" or "written" by their users. If we are to understand processes of user-driven innovation, we need not only to consider how the user writes the technology but also how the user is configured within and through different discourses. Our study aims at contributing to a more fine-grained concept of the user in organization studies by suggesting that the technological artefact as well as the user are simultaneously under recursive (social) construction. In supplementing typical innovation studies' retrospective research design, we ground our argument in the empirical case of a currently ongoing development of a not yet stabilized technology, Grid computing, that allows us precisely to study in vivo how different versions of users are written and negotiated in the recursive development of technology and communities of users.
Language
English
Keywords
user
innovation
social construction
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Academy of Management
Publisher place
Briarcliff Manor, NY
Number
-
Start page
1
End page
6
Pages
6
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
35894