[AISWorld] Information and Organization Best published paper 2014

[Elizabeth Davidson]

I am please to announce the winners of the *Information and Organization*
best published paper awards for 2014. The winning paper and three
runners-up articles are available for free from August 1 – October 31, 2015
via Science Direct. (See links below.)  I encourage you to download and
read these excellent, insightful articles.



Elizabeth Davidson

Editor-in-Chief

Information and Organization



*Information and Organization best published paper 2014:*



***Beyond the organizational ‘container’: Conceptualizing 21st century
sociotechnical work, *Information and Organization*, Volume 24, Issue 4,
October 2014, Pages 250-269, by Susan Winter, Nicholas Berente, James
Howison, Brian Butler.



http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471772714000311



*Highlights*

·      Characterizes limitations of the organizational encapsulation and
inheritance STS assumptions of much of IS scholarship.

·      Theorizes a Neo-STS framework reflecting information infrastructures
that enable trans-organizational work arrangements.

·      Applies Neo-STS to contemporary work showing role of
trans-organizational infrastructures and multidirectional inheritance.



*Runners-up for Best Published Paper 2014*


**An integrative semiotic framework for information systems: The social,
personal and material worlds, Information and Organization, Volume 24,
Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 48-70 by John Mingers, Leslie Willcocks.



http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471772714000037



*Highlights*

·      The paper argues that semiotics is at the heart of the
representation and transmission of information and meaning and thus
communication and information systems.

·      The authors develop an integrative framework grounded in Habermasian
concepts, Peirceian semiotics and an underlying, integrating critical
realist philosophy.



**What have we learned from the Smart Machine?, Information and
Organization, Volume 24, Issue 2, April 2014, Pages 71-105 by Andrew
Burton-Jones.



http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471772714000104



*Highlights*

·      The author analyzes Zuboff’s seminal book “In the Age of the Smart
Machine” and offers a representation of the theory Zuboff developed in her
book.

·      The article examines how Information Systems researchers have used
that theory and explains why this theory offers a timely and very exciting
opportunity for our discipline.



**Visualizing institutional logics in sociomaterial practices, Information
and Organization, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2014, Pages 129-155, by Lotta
Hultin, Magnus Mähring.



http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471772714000189



*Highlights*

·      Visualization artifacts are integral to sensemaking and enacted
institutional logics.

·      These artifacts, IT-based as well as physical, structure work
practices.

·      They shape individual focus of attention and integrate new logics
into practices.

·      Affordances are created from the experience of using several
different technologies.

·      Rejection of a technology constitutes entanglement of other
technologies in practice.


-- 
Elizabeth Davidson
W. Ruel Johnson Professor
Department of Information Technology Management
Shidler College of Business
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808)956-6657 (office)
(808)956-9889 (fax)
http://davidson.shidler.hawaii.edu