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Marsh, Natalie Nelson.

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Reconsidering the conceptual relationship between organizations and technology: A study of the Internet Engineering Task Force as a virtual organization.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reconsidering the conceptual relationship between organizations and technology: A study of the Internet Engineering Task Force as a virtual organization./
Author:	Marsh, Natalie Nelson.
Description:	313 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Michele H. Jackson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	Sociology, Organizational. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3220439
ISBN:	9780542726224

Reconsidering the conceptual relationship between organizations and technology: A study of the Internet Engineering Task Force as a virtual organization.
Marsh, Natalie Nelson.

Reconsidering the conceptual relationship between organizations and technology: A study of the Internet Engineering Task Force as a virtual organization. - 313 p.

Adviser: Michele H. Jackson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006.

Virtual organizations accentuate what communication scholars have long understood: organizations are fundamentally communicative. Researchers most commonly attribute information and communication technologies as the fundamental tool enabling this organizational form (Warner and Witzel, 2004). Recent research counters this claim and argues distributed organization has existed for centuries (King and Frost, 2002; O'Leary, Orlikowski, and Yates, 2002; see also DeSanctis and Monge, 1999). I argue distributed organizations provide an exciting opportunity to consider reflexively the assumptions that inform and shape communication scholars' understanding of organizing and technology. Social constructionist research that focuses on organizations and technologies, tends to tilt and emphasize one side or the other (Jackson, Poole, and Kuhn, 2002). I propose to balance the tendency to tilt and expand upon current research by arguing communication constitutes organizations and technologies through the duality of structure and action. In addition, I develop three additional heuristic constructs in order to re-consider the conceptual relationship between organizations and technology. First, I challenge the assumptions of standardization arguing this is the dynamic process in which researchers observe the emergence of patterns of interpretation for patterns of practices. I extend the boundary objects construct as a methodological tool enabling researchers to better understand how patterns of practice communicatively scale up to the level of standard structures, or deeply embedded structuring properties. I conducted a case study analysis of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) a highly distributed standards development organization responsible for the development and maintenance of Internet standards in order to better understand virtual organizations, communication technology, and the relationship between organization and technology.

ISBN: 9780542726224Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018023
Sociology, Organizational.

Reconsidering the conceptual relationship between organizations and technology: A study of the Internet Engineering Task Force as a virtual organization.
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