Media richness theory argues that different media are more or less appropriate for different tasks. Adaptive structuration theory (AST) implies that technology users may creatively adapt technological structures to mitigate differences in richness. Social Information Processing theory (SIP) suggests a motivation and method guiding such technology adoption. In light of these theories, this paper...

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook thrive on energetic social interaction, but the factors that assure this are not well understood. There is a lack of theory that can describe and predict the successful adoption of new social computing systems. This paper introduces the Social Software Performance Model, and uses it to interpret the evolution and usage of social networking si...

New, integrated information systems, particularly enterprise resource planning systems (ERPS), have begun to challenge the traditional roles played by management accountants. The aim of our research project is to examine how the implementation of a new ERPS impacts on the roles played by management accountants within modern organizations. By drawing on structuration theory, we argue that such c...

Recent scholarship on the appropriation of advanced information technology in professional settings has utilized adaptive structuration theory (AST) to move beyond voluntaristic and deterministic perspectives on workplace interaction. Our study seeks to advance the paradigm of adaptive structuration in both theoretical and empirical terms. First, we make a case for a reconceptualization of the ...

In this paper, the findings of a recent study in the Australian cotton industry exploring rural women’s use of an agricultural decision support system, CottonLOGIC, are presented. Analysis is applied through the conceptual framework of structuration theory as a meta-theory. Divisibility and implementation costs from an environmental model of diffusion theory are used for lower level analysis. T...

With Our Common Future and the United Nation’s global call to implement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2030, public policies increasingly emphasise need for various actors contribute a transformation more sustainable future. Despite growing research on hybrid organisations their contributions development, impact accelerating this transition might be faulty. Looking at type of organisat...