First of all, this paper clarifies the possibilities and limitations of perspectives that have been used in information systems(IS) research and practice so far, that is, technical determinism deterministic perspective and social constructionism. In order to overcome the limitations and problems of those perspectives, the characteristics of ‘constitutive entanglement’ and ‘imbrication’ are explored and their relationships are delved, which have been proposed under the umbrella concept of sociomateriality. Finally, regarding the construction of IS design methodology and doing practical research in today's advanced IT environment, it has been suggested that relying on sociomaterial perspectives characterized by ‘imbrication’ rather than ‘constitutive entanglement’ has a remarkable potentiality.

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In this paper, I discussed the relationship between information systems and humans through describing the process of introducing telework in small and medium enterprises. Telework is an indispensable way of working in modern society in which mobile work using the cloud computing environment is getting popular. I studied a case of using mobile devices in small and medium enterprises and examined the possibility of transition to BYOD from there. In the process, I found that using mobile device have caused an effect I cannot expect in advance. Moreover, I discussed the effect was caused the relationship between information systems and human beings for telework.

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This research investigates the relationship between a sociomaterial ensemble and the performativity of organizational routines. While the role of materials has recently become a more central focus of organizational routine studies, many questions on the material-turn remain unanswered. Based on the debates of sociomateriality, we clarify how physical structure causes organizational routines to be executed. A comparative analysis of sports training organizations illustrated that more structured uses of artifacts helps organizations to perform their routines both materially and socially. We argue that coaches play an important role as modelers who create organizational physical models of sports organizations.

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This paper contributes to leadership study that focus on materiality and discourse. I demonstrate how are discourse and materiality constituted each other and how that mutual constitute influence on leadership. Through the case study of fair-trade project, three findings were obtained about mutual constitute and leadership; (1) materiality play a major role in discourse is retrospectively understood and new discourse is constructed, (2) on the other hand, new discourse bring about a change of materiality and material relationship, and (3) leadership is the phenomenon that emerge as these interconnections are integrated towards achieving organizational objectives.

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In this essay, the author will consider the effectiveness of the perspective of sociomateriality. Therefore, this paper is organized as follows; (1) An overview of the concept of sociomateriality is introduced. (2) The reasons why social materiality is attracting attention are discussed from the following three viewpoints - (a) genealogy of debate on method, (b) organization and strategy, (c) a crisis of management studies. (3) The author will pays attention to the question “What should be studied in information and management research” as an awareness of problem based on three viewpoints. Thus, in order to answer this question, the author will return to the field of office automation and examine the research topic. (4) Finally, the author will confirm that the perspective of social materiality is the same as the foundation of information and management research.

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In recent debates, sociomateriality has been discussed from the perspective of information and technology management. The aim of this study is to examine the meta-theories referred by research scholars who advocate sociomateriality. This concept has been controversial owing to the complexity of meta-theories. The referred metatheories are built on different theoretical premises and contradict each other. In addition, the advocates may takes in the theoretical problem of meta-theories. By examining the meta-theories, we aim to identify the theoretical significance and remaining issues of sociomateriality.

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