A long-standing debate in the IS literature concerns the relationship between technology and organization. Does technology cause effects in organizations, or is it humans that determine how technology is used? Many socio-theoretic accounts of a middle way between the extremes of technological and social determinism have been suggested: in recent years the more convincing explanations have been ...

This paper explores and evaluates a specific analytical framework that can be used by vocational and education and training (VET) researchers to gain understanding of the complex and ‘evolving’ relations of formal and informal learning within organisations. Giddens’ Structuration Theory (1984), while developed to explain the cyclic nature of broader societal relations, is also useful tool for e...