Enterprise systems (ES) are widespread in current organizations, and seen as integrating organizational procedures across functional divisions. An enterprise system (also known as enterprise resource planning – ERP system), once installed, seems to enable or constrain certain actions by managers and users, which have an impact on organizational operations. Those actions may result in increased ...

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has vastly reshaped user experiences on social media. AI-powered media use and its outcomes largely depend how users collaborate with AI that exercises agency. Through in-depth interviews TikTok users, this study investigates when using such dynamics shape engagement. We found are receptive to personalized enabled by machine However, influencing ...

How to secure a sustainable future is currently one of the key challenges across society. Bandura’s theory human agency provides important insights into this question by recognising role individual, proxy and collective in initiating action change. In article, we conceptualise sustainability discuss psychological features competencies that are relevant for supporting education. Agency may manif...

Personal robots present opportunities for understanding the ways that people perceive agency—both in-the-moment and reflectively. Autonomous and interactive personal robots allow us to explore how people come to perceive agency of non-human agents. Remote presence and tele-operation systems are expanding our understandings of how people interact through robots, incorporating these systems into ...

How can human agency be reconciled with bio-physical determinism? Starting with a discussion of the long standing debate between determinism and agency, we argue that the seeds of a reconciliation can be found in George Herbert Mead's ideas concerning social acts, perspectives, differentiation, self-other interactivity, and conscious understanding. Drawing on more recent reformulations of Mead'...

Over the course of my career, my intellectual energies have focused on academic achievement and motivation, subjects that stand at the intersection of psychology and sociology. It was the life course paradigm formulated by Glen H. Elder, Jr., that animated my thinking about the sociological component of my research. Today, Elder’s perspective is widely appreciated but in the 1970s, during a for...

Efficient human-machine networks require productive interaction between human and machine actors. In this study, we address how a strengthening of machine agency, for example through increasing levels of automation, affect the human actors of the networks. Findings from case studies within air traffic management, crisis management, and crowd evacuation are presented, exemplifying how automation...