The purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach for categorizing the body of knowledge captured in the existing literature, past and present in such a way that contributions to the use side of systems development are made explicit. The new twist of this approach is that it seeks to bridge the most prevalent divides currently fragmenting the IS literature by offering an integrative classi...

This study explores how and why university students use Internet-based communication technologies. The study relies on qualitative data collected in the form of interviews, recording of actual postings, and student records over the period of one year (two semesters). The data are interpreted through three mutually complementary theoretical lenses, originally developed to understand adoption and...

This study investigates the consequences of regulation for management control and organisational change in privatised industries by means of a case study of the gas industry. It focuses particularly on the implications for regulation of accounting systems and systems of accountability, as important management control systems. Giddens’ [Central Problems in Social Theory: Action, Structure and Co...

Information systems have been a well researched topic based on their development, implementation, effectiveness, success and, more recently, business-IT alignment. A literature review has revealed that one domain (i.e., the IS service quality and its measurement) has gained considerable prominence in the last one and a half decades, after the recognition of significance of IS service quality in...

This article attempts to study the relationship between cultural capital of the youth with their individual and collective social identities and to scrutinize the correlation between cultural capital and different types of identity. For studying these two constructs (cultural capital and individual and collective identities) Bourdieu, Jenkins and Giddens theories were consulted and for measurin...

Twenty five years ago, Giddens’ structuration theory (ST) was introduced into accounting research as a reaction to the history-less, apolitical and technical-efficiency focus of traditional functionalist research. A quarter of a century later, this growing stream of research consists of some 65 published papers and has become one of the dominant alternative approaches used to explore accounting...

Luhmann’s social systems theory and Giddens’ structuration theory of action share an emphasis on reflexivity, but focus on meaning along a divide between inter-human communication and intentful action as two different systems of reference. Recombining these two theories, simulations of interaction, organization, and self-organization of intentional communication can be distinguished by using al...

One of the current environmental problems is plastic waste. efforts to manage waste in community through bank activities. This paper tries explain participation farmers Pancadaya suburbs area Padang City, from a Giddens perspective. The research was conducted qualitatively by observation and interviews with several informants who were obtained purposively. results show that external dimension, ...

Abstract: Social media twitter is seen as a form of transformation the social movement strategy undertaken by community to fight and prevent corona virus that has now entered Indonesian territory. In this case public through spread about health issues how in Indonesia. Public efforts carry out movements are jointly conducting education hashtag on Twitter, because there many consumptive behavior...