Reconfiguring Boundary Relations: Robotic Innovations in Pharmacy Work

Robotics is a rapidly expanding area of digital innovation with important implications for organizational practice in multioccupational settings. This paper explores the influence of robotic innovations on the boundary dynamics of three different occupational groups—pharmacists, technicians, and ass...

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Published in:Organization science (Providence, R.I.) R.I.), 2012-09, Vol.23 (5), p.1448-1466
Main Authors: Barrett, Michael, Oborn, Eivor, Orlikowski, Wanda J., Yates, JoAnne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
boundary relations
Business assistants
Business innovation
Cooperation
digital
Digital technology
Drug stores
Drugstores
Health care
Health care industry
Hospital services
Information technology
innovation
Innovations
Investigational therapies
Materiality
Medical personnel
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Pharmacy
Retail trade
Robotics
Robots
Science
Special Issue on Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World
Studies
Technicians
Technological change
Technological innovation
Technology application
U.S.A
Visibility
Work skills
Workplaces
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