Theorizing Social Context: Rethinking Behavioral Theory

Behavioral agency theory: new foundations for theorizing about executive compensation

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Social Networks and Social Capital: Rethinking Theory in Community Informatics

Behavioral and Social Science Theory

A theory is a set of interrelated concepts, constructs, and propositions that present a systematic view of a domain of study for the purpose of explaining and predicting phenomena.A model, on the other hand, is a heuristic device for organizing components of a domain of phenomena to show relationships between the parts and the outcome of interest. Scholars from different disciplines distinguish...

Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory

This paper describes the emerging field of practice theory as it is practiced in relation to organizational phenomena. We identify three approaches — empirical, theoretical, and philosophical — that relate to the what, the how and the why of using a practice lens. We discuss three principles of the theoretical approach to practice, and offer examples of how practice theory has been used in the ...

Rethinking Context Models

Since the first context-aware applications were designed, context modelling has played a central role. During the last decade many different approaches were proposed to model context, ranging from ad-hoc models to extensions to relational databases or ontologies. In this paper we propose to take a step back and analyse those approaches using the seminal views presented by Paul Dourish in his wo...