Anchoring Tablets in Organizational Practices - a Practice Based Approach to the Digitalization of Board Work

摘要

Drawing on new technologies, decision makers attempt to design and make real visions for the future of organizations and society. Aiming for successful enactment, instead they are often faced with resistance or unintended changes to existing practices and values. This paper addresses this challenge from a practice theory perspective. Taking our departure in the reflexive dualities of practices and constitutive rules, we present and put into action an analytical model to shed light on how IS-enabled organizational change is enabled and sustained via dynamic interplay, inherent relations and performative enactment. The empirical material consists of interviews and observations in a Swedish municipality. The contribution includes an account as to how the enactment and definition of fundamental social relations affect the introduction of digital board packs via tablets to either serve as a catalyst to establish and reproduce new setups and practices in the board room or simply fail.