Sociomateriality: an integrative review to understand the current status of scientific production

Abstract

This paper was dedicated to understand the current status of scientific production on sociomateriality, the themes and theoretical approaches addressed, the ontological and epistemological perspectives, the methodology adopted, criticism about the theory and future research trends. In the end, it is hoped that this paper may contribute to the advancement and development of this field of study through the opening of a research agenda. Developed by an integrative review, which was carried out by means of a survey of the international scientific production in periodicals of great relevance. The findings show the ontological and epistemological approach adopted by these studies is social constructivism or critical realism, predominating social constructivism. The predominant research method is the qualitative approach case study. In addition to criticisms related to the ontological and epistemological approaches, the proposed concepts for sociomateriality and the generic examples, it is worth noting that research does not explore other types of materiality.