Adaptive structuration theory (AST, DeSanctis and Poole 1994) describes how people come to understand and use a technology. In this paper we develop the idea of proactive structuration −− how social networking can be proactively managed in order to speed the comprehensive adaptation of a technology within a community of users. We examine two facets of proactive structuration – formal institutio...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present a reinforced version of structuration theory, known as strong structuration theory, set out in Stones (2005) as a disciplined

anthony giddens, a prominent social theoretician of contemporary sociology, has done extensive theoretical efforts in the last three decades. central to his debates is the theory of structuration, which was first introduced in his book constitution of society (1984). the theory, aimed at giving an end to dominance of hermeneutic theories on the one hand and structuralism and functionalism on th...

Giddens' structuration theory is increasingly used in studies assessing IT-based organizational change. However, few studies, if any, have focused on how to empirically apply this “meta-theory”. In this article, over twenty IS studies published in the last ten years which used structuration theory were reviewed. We extend previous research by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of different ...

This paper aims at examining how the adoption of a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system challenges the definition of the expertise and roles of accountants within organisations. By drawing on structuration theory, as we rely on the notion of duality of structure for insights into the processes by which new accountants’ practices and positions emerge, we indicate that the three levels (...

Organizational social networks (OVSN) are socio-technical artifacts, based on social networks that allow the development of relationships between people in organizations. Our assumption is that OSVN are capable of fostering organizational innovation. Organizational innovation means the creation and adoption of new products, processes and methods and its relation with OVSN is not yet well develo...

Given the pervasiveness of information technology (IT) in human life at multiple levels – from individuals, to teams, organizations, markets, countries, and society – an increasing number of researchers have looked for alternative ways to study technology and organization interactions. One of the main perspectives that have been articulated by several researchers in IT is Giddens' structuration...

The paper analyzes management practices as reflexive practices based on transactive knowledge (Brauner, 2002). It relates the concept of transactive knowledge systems to central concepts of structuration theory (Giddens, 1984), namely structuration and the duality of structure. Structuration theory provides a practice-based foundation of the concept of transactive knowledge systems. It sheds li...

Résumé L’objectif de cette contribution est de proposer une méthodologie nouvelle de structuration de corpus à l’aide d’outils informatiques récents permettant aux linguistes non-spécialistes en informatique de constituer des corpus structurés en vue de leur exploration par des outils de traitement automatique des langues naturelles. Il s’agit, plus exactement, de présenter le processus d’infor...

The concept of preference structuration not only provides possible escape-routes from socialchoice-theoretic impossibility problems, but also points towards ways of formalizing notions of 'pluralism', 'consensus' and 'issue-dimensionality'. The present note introduces two methods of (operationally) measuring preference structuration, giving attention to both their conceptual characteristics and...