Venters, Will 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8329-729X, Oborn, Eivor and Barrett, Michael I.
(2014)
A trichordal temporal approach to digital coordination: the sociomaterial mangling of the CERN grid.
MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems, 38 (3).
pp. 927-949.
ISSN 0276-7783
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Abstract
This paper develops a sociomaterial perspective on digital coordination. It extends Pickering’s mangle of practice by using a trichordal approach to temporal emergence. We provide new understanding as to how the nonhuman and human agencies involved in coordination are embedded in the past, present, and future. We draw on an in-depth field study conducted between 2006 and 2010 of the development, introduction, and use of a computing grid infrastructure by the CERN particle physics community. Three coordination tensions are identified at different temporal dimensions, namely obtaining adequate transparency in the present, modeling a future infrastructure, and the historical disciplining of social and material inertias. We propose and develop the concept of digital coordination, and contribute a trichordal temporal approach to understanding the development and use of digital infrastructure as being orientated to the past and future while emerging in the present.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://aisel.aisnet.org/misq/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors © CC BY 3.0 |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2014 11:38 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:40 |
| Projects: | EP/D049954/1 |
| Funders: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/57659 |
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