The principle of trichotomy from the American philosopher Charles S. Peirce can be used to categorize processes into the triad of transactional, informational, and relational. The usefulness of these categories is explicated by a comparison with structuration theory and control theory, and elaborated with a consideration of democracy in a knowledge economy. These three example applications of t...

The widespread of the fashion industry, which heavily utilizes Instagram platform for marketing, influences trends Muslim fashion. Additionally, image presented by Muslimah influencers also contributes to shaping standards contemporary clothing. This study aims explore role industry and in constructing attire. focuses on observing this phenomenon among female students at Sunan Kalijaga State Is...

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...

Most studies of FOSS organizational migration projects focus solely on technological and economical aspects, neglecting the importance of organizational discourse structures for migration decisions as well as success. In looking at the case of the municipality of Munich this paper uses structuration theory in combination with discourse analysis to explain why and how in this case actors were ab...

Recently, IS researchers have borrowed theories from other academic fields in the hope of enriching their theorising about the use, adoption and diffusion of material systems by human actors. Situated Action, Structuration theory and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) are cases in point. Arguably, rather than borrowing theories ready-made from alien disciplines, we should investigate their meta-theoret...

Structuration theory and the theory of network society are used to guide an investigation of the extent to which ICT investments in emerging countries impact future levels of democracy, corruption, and egovernment acceptance. Using structural path modeling and data from fifty emerging economies, this paper finds that an emerging country’s acceptance of the e-government paradigm is contingent up...

Background Collaboration between researchers and knowledge users is increasingly promoted because it could enhance more evidence-based decision-making and practice. These complex relationships differ in form, in the particular goals they are trying to achieve, and in whom they bring together. Although much is understood about why partnerships form, relatively little is known about how collabora...

Purpose – The main purpose of this article is to discuss if an enterprise system (ES) is a part of an organization’s administrative paradox. The questions raised here is which role the ES has in organizing, focusing aspects of flexibility and stability. Design/Methodology/Approach – This study is a qualitative, longitudinal, case study of how an ES maintain, and even reinforce, existing adminis...