Zuboff's (1988)book
In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work
and Power
is one of the most celebrated texts among Information
Systems researchers. Despite its signi
fi
cant in
fl
uence, I suggest that it
may have a richer story to tell than has been told to date. Motivated by
thispotential,myessayhastwoaims: toexplicatethetheorydeveloped
in Zuboff's text, and to determine how fully it has been used and
extended by Information Systems researchers, through an analysis of
papers citing her text. My
fi
ndings show that the theory developed in
Zuboff's text has been used in a fairly limited and piecemeal fashion. I
discuss how this presentsa signi
fi
cant opportunity for research because
the theory appears to be just as relevant now as it was when the text
was published