This thesis contributes to the field of collaborative information systems and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). It extends the notion of technological support for design activities "in use" beyond providing the flexibility to tailor collaborative software, to provide means to support the appropriation process of these tools in their application fields. Two long-term studies on the evo...

This paper describes three initial case studies of software use by teachers to support learners with special educational needs. In each case, the teachers were observed to be appropriating the software in ways that went beyond the intended use of the technologies. Appropriation has been previously explored as a positive process that provides benefits to users, yet these cases suggest that there...

The building of a re-configurable business process (BP) has gained importance in organizations. It helps the organization to adapt agility goals. A proper context-driven BP should be capable integrating dynamic context information. However, this is absent existing studies. As result, providing suitable, expressive and stakeholders become challenging issue. prevailing research works lack conside...

Organizations invest in information technology (IT) looking for positive results that can only be produced if the technology is effectively used by individuals. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) applies a simple and quantitative model to predict intention of use, but it has difficulties to keep its explanatory power when analyzing implementation in mandatory settings (which are usual in bus...

The Maisons Tropicales are three prefabricated housing structures designed by Jean Prouvé. Fabricated in France, they were transported to and assembled Brazzaville Niamey, then part of the French colonies, around 1950. Their design was tied closely belief so-called civilizing enlightening power European modernist and, thereby, also colonial agenda. In early 2000s, an American collector, Robert ...

ABSTRACT In an era of decolonization and empire, the management field embraced US-led neoliberal counterrevolution challenged Eurocentric theory-practice hierarchy to produced relevant knowledge through managed learning theories. This contested reformist market-centric revolution (MR) against threat “reverse relevance” fostered by emerging/resurging barbarians subalternizes Southern theories-pr...

The last sixty years have seen a significant shift away from seeing resource wealth as a key component ofpositive macro-economic reform, to acceptance of the negative impacts that an abundance of, or dependenceon, natural resources can have on security, economic growth, and the development of accountable politicalinstitutions. The appropriation and extraction of natural resources em...