Individual boundary management: An empirical investigation on technology-related tactics
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Individual boundary management : An empirical investigation on technology-related tactics. / Jahn, Katharina; Klesel, Michael; Lemmer, Kristina et al.
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, 2016. 268 (Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Individual boundary management
T2 - 20th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016
AU - Jahn, Katharina
AU - Klesel, Michael
AU - Lemmer, Kristina
AU - Weigel, Andreas
AU - Niehaves, Björn
N1 - Conference code: 20
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Elevated through the increasing digitalization, employees are expected to be available always and everywhere. According to boundary theory, individuals can manage their boundaries between work and private life on a continuum of integration and separation. As individuals have different preferences for integration or separation, they are implementing IT tactics to meet their preferences. However, there is a lack of research addressing this topic. Therefore, we used an exploratory approach using tools from grounded theory in order to detect IT-related tactics which employees use to manage their boundaries between work and private life in a way that is in line with their preferences. We identified six tactics that varied in their ability to foster integration or separation and could be administered either manually or automatically. These tactics ranged from physical detachment in which employees separate work and private life manually through creating distance between the device and themselves up to dynamic filters with which the device automatically filters messages from different people and lets only relevant messages come through.
AB - Elevated through the increasing digitalization, employees are expected to be available always and everywhere. According to boundary theory, individuals can manage their boundaries between work and private life on a continuum of integration and separation. As individuals have different preferences for integration or separation, they are implementing IT tactics to meet their preferences. However, there is a lack of research addressing this topic. Therefore, we used an exploratory approach using tools from grounded theory in order to detect IT-related tactics which employees use to manage their boundaries between work and private life in a way that is in line with their preferences. We identified six tactics that varied in their ability to foster integration or separation and could be administered either manually or automatically. These tactics ranged from physical detachment in which employees separate work and private life manually through creating distance between the device and themselves up to dynamic filters with which the device automatically filters messages from different people and lets only relevant messages come through.
KW - Boundary management
KW - Boundary theory
KW - Individual IT tactics
KW - Informatics
KW - Business informatics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011106097&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85011106097
T3 - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings
BT - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings
PB - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
Y2 - 27 June 2016 through 1 July 2016
ER -