Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 172-189Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0960085X.2020.1728200
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Michael Myers; Crispin Coombs; Organisational control; affordances; mobile technology; complementary control
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In this paper, we investigate how the use of mobile technologies contributes to the emergence of a complementary control system, in which both employee autonomy and management control are enhanced. We apply an affordance lens to understand the affordances (and constraints) for complementary control that emerge in the use of mobile technologies by both employees and managers. Based on a qualitative case study of the implementation and use of a mobile Sales Force Automation tool at a multinational company, we identify three informational affordances for control and analyse how these were actualised to enhance both management control and employee autonomy. Our study contributes to extant literature on the relation between mobile technologies and autonomy and control by showing the central role of mobile technologies' affordances in redistributing informational demands and benefits of control in the interaction between managers, employees, and mobile devices.
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