Liminal innovation in practice: Understanding the reconfiguration of digital work in crisis
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd As conditions of crisis disrupt established practices, existing ways of doing things are interrupted and called into question. The suspension of routine sociomaterial enactments produces openings for liminal innovation, a process entailing iterative experimentation and implementa...
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| author | Orlikowski, Wanda J Scott, Susan V |
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| description | © 2021 Elsevier Ltd As conditions of crisis disrupt established practices, existing ways of doing things are interrupted and called into question. The suspension of routine sociomaterial enactments produces openings for liminal innovation, a process entailing iterative experimentation and implementation that explores novel or alternative materializations of established work practices. We draw attention to three distinct tensions on the ground that arise in conditions of crisis — pragmatic, tactical, and existential — and show how these may be leveraged to produce liminal innovations in practice. While the process of liminal innovation can be challenging, it can also be generative, creating opportunities for the reconfiguration of digital work in conditions of crisis. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1443802023-03-04T04:59:02Z Liminal innovation in practice: Understanding the reconfiguration of digital work in crisis Orlikowski, Wanda J Scott, Susan V Sloan School of Management © 2021 Elsevier Ltd As conditions of crisis disrupt established practices, existing ways of doing things are interrupted and called into question. The suspension of routine sociomaterial enactments produces openings for liminal innovation, a process entailing iterative experimentation and implementation that explores novel or alternative materializations of established work practices. We draw attention to three distinct tensions on the ground that arise in conditions of crisis — pragmatic, tactical, and existential — and show how these may be leveraged to produce liminal innovations in practice. While the process of liminal innovation can be challenging, it can also be generative, creating opportunities for the reconfiguration of digital work in conditions of crisis. 2022-08-19T16:35:50Z 2022-08-19T16:35:50Z 2021 2022-08-19T16:32:30Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144380 Orlikowski, Wanda J and Scott, Susan V. 2021. "Liminal innovation in practice: Understanding the reconfiguration of digital work in crisis." Information and Organization, 31 (1). en 10.1016/J.INFOANDORG.2021.100336 Information and Organization Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier BV Prof. Wanda Orlikowski |
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| title | Liminal innovation in practice: Understanding the reconfiguration of digital work in crisis |
| title_full | Liminal innovation in practice: Understanding the reconfiguration of digital work in crisis |
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| title_short | Liminal innovation in practice: Understanding the reconfiguration of digital work in crisis |
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