A Bundled Approach to Explaining Technological Change: The Case of E-estonia

Abstract

Explaining change is an abstract endeavor. Many management scholars have adopted metaphors to explain change. In this paper, we discuss technological change. We use a historical and theoretical approach to review and elaborate on concepts and context about a specific case. We discuss the limitations of each approach proffered and the implications thusly on technological change. We present plurality and multiplicity of perspectives through socio-technical lens to explain technological change contextually on an organizational level. We show by using our model how technology absorption and diffusion can be accelerated through artefactual institutions to engineer social change. The multiplicity of perspectives and plurality of our arguments creates a fine explanation of the e-Estonia case as an example.

Keywords: artefactual institutions, e-Estonia, social change, technological trajectories