Ethnographies often show that users appropriate and adapt technology in ways never envisaged by the designers, or even deliberately subverting the designers’ intentions. As design can never be complete, such appropriation is regarded as an important and positive phenomenon. However designing for appropriation is often seen as an oxymoron; it appears impossible to design for the unexpected. In t...

This research uses an appropriation perspective to explore how project management norms are concretely used in context. We have drawn on AST (Adaptive Structuration Theory) to study the appropriation of norms by I.T project managers, using three case studies. Direct appropriation moves have been observed from each project manager, as well as faithfulness to the spirit of PM norms. However a tho...

The evolution of mobile communication devices and services has taken up a dynamic that makes any prognosis in the field almost impossible. Whereas part of this dynamic may remain inscrutable, we believe that a much higher degree of explanation can be achieved by systematically paying closer attention to the process of appropriation. To seize upon this potential, we present an integrative model ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the processes of value creation and appropriation among companies in a reverse clothing supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: This research is based on an inductive case study approach at fashion retailers, charity organisations, commercial recyclers, and specialised sorting companies involved in take back schemes for used clothes in the rev...

Information and communication technologies have invaded the field of training, though their performances have, up until now, been judged by companies to be insufficient. Among the origins of this state of affairs, we consider that the lack of knowledge of what happens in a “real use situation” plays an important role. Indeed, understanding what is involved in learners-system interactions is fun...

One of the foundational questions underlying strategy research relates to identifying characteristics of economic situations that enable value appropriation by firms. Recently, MacDonald & Ryall (2004) presented a coalition game based framework within which the mechanism of value appropriation in competitive situations can be formally modeled and analyzed. They subsequently use their formulatio...

This paper proposes an experiment using GSS in a longitudinal study to develop an appropriation model using structural equation modeling. The study will examine the relationship of the three levels of appropriation along with outcome and decision satisfaction, determinants of system success.

This thesis investigated the appropriation of information and communication technologies in everyday life among university students and mature people. To that end, pertinent literature was reviewed resulting in the identification of three issues in need of a more careful appraisal by the HCI field. These issues were used as the research questions propelling this work; they include the identific...

A growing body of research work tries to go beyond the classical dichotomy of ‘design’ and ‘use’ in order to better understand the accountabilities of technology production and use. Our research focuses on the creative activities at the ‘user’ end of the production line of organisational software. Support for these activities is traditionally discussed in the context of ‘Tailoring’ applications...