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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" xml:lang="en" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">OTT</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Organization Theory</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2631-7877</issn><publisher><publisher-name>SAGE Publications</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Sage UK: London, England</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1177/2631787721995205</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">10.1177_2631787721995205</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Conversations and Controversies</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Beyond Uberization: The co-constitution of technology and organizing</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Faraj</surname><given-names>Samer</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1-2631787721995205">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4024-079X</contrib-id><name><surname>Pachidi</surname><given-names>Stella</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2-2631787721995205">2</xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="corresp1-2631787721995205"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1-2631787721995205"><label>1</label>McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada</aff><aff id="aff2-2631787721995205"><label>2</label>University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK</aff><author-notes><corresp id="corresp1-2631787721995205">Samer Faraj, McGill University, Bronfman Bldg, Montreal H3A 1G5, Quebec, Canada. Email: <email>samer.faraj@mcgill.ca</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>18</day><month>3</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>2</volume><issue>1</issue><elocation-id>2631787721995205</elocation-id><permissions><copyright-statement>© The Author(s) 2021</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder content-type="sage">European Group for Organizational Studies</copyright-holder><license><ali:license_ref start_date="2021-03-18" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ali:license_ref><license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ext-link>) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage">https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage</ext-link>).</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Uberization has emerged as a platform-based form of organizing that is reshaping work and labour markets and that is fundamentally challenging existing thinking on organizing. We suggest that organizational theorists have been reluctant to address the constitutive relation between technology and organizing. By emphasizing co-constitution, we argue against viewing technology as an entity that is separate, exogenous, or causal. Instead, we offer that technology can be fruitfully viewed as endogenous to and constitutively entwined with organizational actions and structures. To illustrate this co-constitution, we present a brief analysis of Uberization from a regime of organizing perspective that emphasizes how organizing practices, valuation schemes, authority arrangements and technological arrangements are entwined with each other. We conclude with an invitation to organizational theorists to more specifically engage with technology as they theorize new forms of organizing.</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>contingency theory</kwd><kwd>information systems</kwd><kwd>innovation</kwd><kwd>organizational form</kwd><kwd>science and technology studies (STS)</kwd><kwd>technology</kwd></kwd-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>cover-date</meta-name><meta-value>January-March 2021</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>typesetter</meta-name><meta-value>ts1</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front></article>