Abstract
Paul R. Carlile and Karl-Emanuel Dionne take a sociomateriality approach to provide guidance in how unconventional research can have greater impact in organization studies. Given that unconventional research doesn’t generally conform to existing research practices it has a liability of newness that can hinder its intelligibility in a research community. To address this challenge they focus on five underlying dimensions of materiality that all research can focus on to increase its potential impact: outcomes, accumulations, layers, relative durability and consequences. To show the value of each of these dimensions they use Steve Barley’s 1986 unconventional CT Scanning study and Black et. al’s 2004 unconventional retelling of Barley’s work. They demonstrate that despite the novelty associated with unconventional research, these dimensions of materiality can guide the development of research as a boundary object that sits meaningfully and consequentially between the conventional and unconventional research efforts.
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