References

Research methods

Contributions to the understanding of affordances

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Zammuto (2007)

Theoretical analysis

IT/IS has become a factor that cannot be ignored in organizational change.

IT/IS affordances can affect the form and function of organizations, and the evolving relationship between IT and organizations [4] .

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Markus, Silver (2008)

Theoretical analysis

Properties of objects are important but insufficient to explain the use and effects of objects.

Properties of objects can provide affordances-related information, but affordances are not the properties of the objects.

Describing IT artifacts using two relational concepts, i.e. functional affordances and symbolic expressions [3] .

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Leonardi (2011)

Single case analysis

Technologies afford supporting or constraining during the process of achieving organizational goals.

Based on the imbrications of human and material agencies, members in organizations make decisions of changing routines and technologies when they cannot achieve their goals [6] .

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Goh (2011)

Single case analysis

The affordances of new systems will change the procedures and routines of organizations.

Affordances evolve through actors’ behavior [25] .

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Volkoff, Strong (2013)

Two cases analyses

Affordances are generative mechanisms in organizational change process, helping us improve our understanding of IT-related changes [5] .

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Seidel (2013)

Single case analysis

Socio-technical systems enable material properties of IS to create functional affordances.

Building the theoretical framework of studying IS functional affordances [26] .

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Robey (2013)

Theoretical analysis

Uncovering the impact of materiality of IT on organizational changes based on socio-technical perspective [27] .

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Fayard, Weeks (2014)

Literature review

Interpreting affordances as both dispositional and relational.

Shifting the focus of affordance researches from the technology to practice provided jointly by technology and organizing.

Offering the method of combining affordances with habitus to explain practice based on sociomaterial perspectives [2] .

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Strong (2014)

Single case analysis

Researches should address the indeterministic process of IT artifacts and IT effects, the multilevel properties of IT-enabled change and the intentional problems of actors.

Replacement of appropriation concept with actualization [19] .

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Grgecic (2015)

Empirical research

Examining how IT-related factors influence the formation of beliefs building on and extending the concept of functional affordance and symbolic expression [28] .

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Bygstad (2016)

Single case analysis

Drawing on the concept of affordances as an analytical construct to identify and analyze mechanisms [13] .

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Yingqin Zheng, Ai Yu (2016)

Single case analysis

Studying the socialized affordances of social media and adopting the perspective of affordances-for-practice based on the theory of collective action [9] .

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