%0 Book Section %B Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Information Systems %D 2004 %T Innovation and Hybrid Genres: Disturbing Social Rhythm in Legal Practice %A Horton, K. %A Davenport, E. %E Leino, T. %E Saarinen, T. %E Klein, S. %K genre %K hybrid %K innovation %K legal practice %K power %X

This paper explores the non-adoption of an innovation via the concept of hybrid genres, that is digitalgenres that emerge from a non-digital material precedent. As instances of innovation these are often resisted because they disturb the order of activity and balance of power relations in a given situation, or require users to make conceptual and physical adaptation efforts that they consider too costly. The authors investigate such issues with a case study of the introduction of a hybrid digital genre, ODR or online dispute resolution, in legal practice.

%B Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Information Systems %I Turku School of Economics and Business Administration %C Turku, Finland %P 742–752 %8 2004 %@ 951-564-192-6 %G eng %U http://is2.lse.ac.uk/asp/aspecis/default5.asp