Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:For example, Orlikowski (1996)
conducted an ethnography of a software company to examine these decisions and processes, and found that members of organizations improvise the nature of their work, their mechanisms of coordination, the forms of accountability, and so forth in response to emergent and…
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