Intelligent technologies have the potential to transform organizations and organizing processes. In particular, they are unique from prior organizational in that reposition technology as agent rather than a tool or object of use. Scholars studying human-machine communication (HMC) begun theorize dual role played by human machine agency, but focused primarily on individual level. Drawing Structu...

I elaborate on the tension between Luhmann’s social systems theory and Habermas’ theory of communicative action, and argue that this tension can be resolved by focusing on language as the interhuman medium of the communication which enables us to develop symbolically generalized media of communication such as truth, love, power, etc. Following Luhmann, the layers of self-organization among the ...

This paper argues that the concept of communities of practice can be usefully grounded in a structuration approach and used to guide investigation into the dynamics of these communities. Points of contact between structuration and communities of practice are explored; the concept of structuration informs processes of identity formation and maintenance in communities of practice, the duality of ...

This paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of “technology in use.” The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and f...

Virtual teams have made such an impact on many organizational phenomena, particularly knowledge management. Based on socio-technical perspective, this paper suggests that trust and IT are the underlying foundation of knowledge creation in virtual teams. Based on such foundation, this paper proposes a theoretical model of knowledge creation process in virtual teams called Adaptive Social-Externa...

Rose, Jones and Truex (2005) (RST) call for a re-examination of the relationship between the IT artefact and the organization. This paper responds to that call. It first recognizes that existing approaches such as structuration theory (ST) and actor-network theory (ANT) have difficulties accommodating information systems within organizations and thus create issues in analyzing the relationship ...

We use an agent-based model to help to refine and clarify social practice theory, wherein the focus is neither on individuals nor on any form of societal totality, but on the repeated performances of practices ordered across space and time. The recursive relationship between social practices and practitioners (individuals performing practices) is strongly emphasised in social practice theory. W...

Within the Information Systems literature, there has been a call for new theories to investigate IT adoption and IT use. Based on Adaptive Structuration Theory a new model was developed to capture different functionalities, values and meanings provided by IT systems. Using a sample of 183 users of a student IT system, the research model and the hypothesized relationships were tested for the fir...

This paper outlines and evaluates recent contributions by Nicos Mouzelis and Margaret Archer to the structure–agency debate. Mouzelis offers an internal reconstruction of Giddens’s structuration theory; Archer an external alternative. I show that, although representing an advance on Giddens’s position, Mouzelis’s account fails because he relies on the former’s definition of structure as compris...