This paper presents early findings of a study on how users appropriate a computerised mobile system designed to administer service orders. The theoretical lens used was Adaptive Structuration Theory (AST) and focused on Structural Features, Spirit and Appropriation of Structure. In order to accomplish the purpose, two aspects were to be considered: the system’s structure and the user’s appropri...

Continuity of care is a central topic for healthcare practice and is closely related to issues of collaboration. Thus, studying continuity of care from a CSCW perspective can help us understand what makes continuity of care in practice. In this paper, we show how collaborative technologies are appropriated differently in two cases, one in Denmark and the other in the US. We illustrate how this ...

Con‡ict and appropriation are costly activities that are economically signi…cant, yet the assumption of perfect and costless enforcement of property rights in much of economic research has limited their systematic study. Con‡ict follows directly from the methodological principle of self-interest and taking it into account in modeling leads to very di¤erent …ndings than in its absence: in straig...

Watersheds have the characteristic of connecting people vertically by water flows, making relationships among users of water more complex. The location of the people along the watershed defines their role in the provision and appropriation of water. Verticality in watersheds thus imposes a challenge to collective action. This paper presents the results of field experiments conducted in four wat...

Adaptive Structuration Theory (A&T,) is rapidly becoming an important theoretical paradigm in electronic meeting systems (&XLS) research. Despite this, there is a paucity of instruments designed to capture critical AST constructs. This paper describes the development of an instrument to capture consensus on appropriation, or the extent to which group participants perceive that they have agreed ...

My goal in this position paper is to take a number of technologies I have been involved with as a starting point for some reflections on evolutionary patterns in the adoption and use of collaborative technologies. I put these two together because I believe that adoption and use must be seen as parts of the same process, and in fact that use can be seen as the continual re-adoption of technology...