The Practical and Theoretical Trails in Hindsight · · · Contextualization: Many observations indicated that situational and contextual aspects must be given more attention and importance in the organizational discourse. Recurrent patterns: Certain patterns appeared over and over again ­ temporal ordering of things, how things were related to each other, how to do things, transitions between contexts. This indi- cated the existence of an underlying structure whose existence could be perceived in the everyday workings of the organization. Enactment: the importance of enactment ­ the emergence of new structures by constant engage- ments of people with the technology at hand. Enactment also emphasizes the importance of being sensitive to the history of organizational artifacts like information models, process models, etc. recapiTulaTion of The TheoreTical Trail From another direction, a collection of theoretical instruments were outlined in Section 2: · · · Praxis: The central concept in Marx's philosophy; the nexus of human activity in which mankind creates the social existence of itself. The dialectical relation: Indicating that the relationship between pairs is internal, in which oppo- sites are different but mutually depending on and impacting each other within a totality. The epistemology of praxis: Issues such as "truth", "reality", "facts" cannot be treated as some-