Information Systems Research Forum

Every move you make, every claim you stake … A “practice-turn” and IS research

Marlei Pozzebon
HEC Montreal

Thursday 21 May 2009
1200-1330

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The “practice-turn” has received a great deal of attention in management literature, particularly in the field of strategy. An increasing number of papers and books, identifying themselves as “strategy-as-practice” studies, have been published in recent years, serving to consolidate its position and contribution – both conceptual and empirical – as a strong emergent research tradition. Interestingly, an increasing number of researchers in the IS field are using theoretical lenses that focus on practices, routines and daily interactions, converging towards a research stream identifiable as a “practice-turn”.

The goal of this presentation is twofold. The first aim is to identify influential groups of IS researchers espousing a practice lens and to delineate their theoretical foundations, their view of technology and agency and their potential for making a contribution to IS research “in practice”. Secondly, I seek to illustrate a practice-based framework that addresses the social implications of ICT use at the societal/community level, briefly describing two investigations dealing with microcredit and local citizen movements.

Marlei Pozzebon is an Associate Professor at HEC Montreal and a Visiting professor at FGV-EAESP (Brazil). His research interests are the social, political and cultural aspects of ICT in practice and the use of practice-based theoretical frames and qualitative methods. Some keywords of this research are structuration theory, critical discourse analysis, constructivism, local and sustainable development and global-local negotiations.

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