Adoption of Immersive Technologies in Manufacturing SMEs – A Strategy-as-Practice Perspective on their Affordances, Constraints and Responses

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorWendt, Charlotte
dc.contributor.authorKalgovas, Bradley
dc.contributor.authorBenlian, Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-24T18:22:28Z
dc.date.available2021-12-24T18:22:28Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-04
dc.description.abstractImmersive technologies (ImT) provide affordances for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry, such as the enhancement and recreation of aspects of the physical world. These affordances are critical due to changes in the SMEs’ environment including increasingly virtualized collaboration and digitization of work practices. However, the adoption of ImT by manufacturing SMEs is still low. Drawing on the Technology Affordances and Constraints theory, and applying a Strategy-as-Practice approach, this study researches the adoption of ImT as a strategic response to environmental changes in German-based manufacturing SMEs. The findings reveal the critical role of constraints of ImT, which act as hindrances to implementation. Specifically, realizing the affordances of ImT requires consideration of, and responses to, the constraints manufacturing SMEs experience, including the constraints associated with the providers of ImT. Thus, this paper expands the understanding of the factors which influence implementation and strategizing of ImT in SMEs.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2022.827
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/80167
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectPractice-based IS Research
dc.subjectimmersive technologies
dc.subjectsmes
dc.subjectstrategy-as-practice
dc.subjecttechnology adoption
dc.subjecttechnology-affordances-and-constraints theory
dc.titleAdoption of Immersive Technologies in Manufacturing SMEs – A Strategy-as-Practice Perspective on their Affordances, Constraints and Responses
dc.type.dcmitext

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
0668.pdf
Size:
728.74 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Practice-based IS Research