@misc{697,
  author = {Elizabeth Davidson and Mike Chiasson and Sachin Ruikar},
  title = {Taking People out of the Network: A Deconstruction of {\textquotedblleft}Your Next IT Strategy{\textquotedblright}},
  abstract = {Web services are frequently discussed as {\textquotedblleft}the next big thing{\textquotedblright} in information technology architecture. The picture painted by pundits, practitioners, IT vendors, and academics is appealing technically: Web service applications {\textquotedblleft}exposed{\textquotedblright} to one another
 through standard protocols, navigating through an open infrastructure to search out counterparts over the Internet, with {\textquotedblleft}seamless{\textquotedblright}
 integration across business processes and enterprises, without human intervention. However, the vision of a computing architecture
 that takes {\textquotedblleft}people out of the network{\textquotedblright} has troubling social implications. In this paper, we utilize deconstruction as an analytic
 approach to examine a paper that promotes Web services, entitled {\textquotedblleft}Your Next IT Strategy{\textquotedblright} (Hagel and Brown 2001). Our analytic
 purpose is to generate interpretations of the text that surface assumptions about how this IT innovation may influence the
 social organization of IT-related work. Our interpretation suggests that the Web services architecture could contribute to
 reproduction and consolidation of control among already powerful socio-economic actors, while restructuring and automating
 the work of IT professionals and other knowledge workers. We conclude with a discussion of deconstruction as a research approach
 to investigate issues of social inclusion and IT innovation.
},
  year = {2006},
  booktitle = {Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems},
  journal = {Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems},
  pages = {317 - 332},
  doi = {10.1007/0-387-34588-4_21},
  language = {eng},
  key = {697},
}