英文摘要 |
Current literatures on information system and organization innovation emphasize more on how to accept, implement, and adopt technology. However, we know relatively little about why technology-enabled organizational innovation was mostly aborted before a technology reaches its full potential. To address this issue, this research conducts a field-based study and examines how an electronic auction system is used in a given working context. It particularly examines the organizational routine embedded in the technology. To examine organizational routine, this research analyzes work practices and illustrates various activities of market-making in electronic auction. Our findings report that, in the case, the organization routine contains a set of organizing practices. Behind such organizing practices, there are organizing principles illustrating a coherent system of market-making knowledge. The organizing practices offer an alternative way to understand how technology may be deployed effectively and organizational innovation may be sustained. The theoretical and practical implications of organizational routine are discussed. |