Firms in China, and in Asia-Pacific countries to a certain degree, cannot escape from two institutional characteristics of modern organizations: the uniquely Eastern practice of guanxi and the uniquely Western artifact of information technology. While both constructs have been extensively studied in organizational contexts, few have examined how these two constructs interact with each other and...

Structures in organisations to a certain extent consist of language. This becomes obvious when analysing social media. Contrary to verbal speech, computer-mediated communication is non-volatile. However, in some respects communication on social media platforms resembles face-to-face communication. This calls for close analyses of this kind of communication in relation to organisational behaviou...

In the current climate of global competitiveness, many organisations are increasingly dependent on their IT strategy—either to increase their competitiveness, or often just to survive. Yet little is known about the non-technical influencing factors (such as people) and their impact on the development and implementation of IT strategy. There would therefore seem to be prima facie evidence that t...

The study of information technology has given insufficient focus to a) the structural factors and b) the community perspective. As information systems become increasingly integrated with human systems these wider influences are more important than ever. Human city interaction concepts including their interplay with cyberphysical systems and social computing are appropriated to healthcare. Throu...

The paper deals with the effects of information technology in organizations with a particular emphasis on the role of motivation of the organizational members. Giddens’ Theory of Structuration and its application in the research of information technology in organizations represents the theoretical grounding. A model is proposed that describes the implementation, transformation and institutional...

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...

The recognition that information systems comprise both technical and social elements has not been matched by the emergence of a coherent theoretical understanding of the nature of, and relationship between, these elements. A number of approaches have been advocated that seek to transcend traditional assumptions of either technological or social determinism, but these may be seen to have their o...

This paper presents findings of a recent study which explores rural women’s use of an agricultural decision support system, CottonLOGIC, within the Australian cotton industry. Meta-analysis is applied through the theoretical framework of structuration theory while diffusion theory is used for lower level analysis. The concept of communication is applicable to both theories. The significance of ...

This research throws light on to the role of social issues in developing a successful information system. In a case study of a community health organization, we describe how IT management carried out an integrated set of actions over a two-year period to obtain legitimation for an Intranet system from its eventual stakeholders. We suggest that, in general, a failure to obtain such legitimation ...

The present research has been conducted aiming at specifying how the youth use internet and how they are influenced of emerging media via survey as the research method. The statistical population (200445) consists of 18-30 years old youth in Kashan. The sample (384) was selected using random sampling method via Morgan table. To elaborate the hypotheses, Tajfel&#39s theory has been used to speci...