This paper explores issues associated with information sharing with emergency services entities through the lens of information security, structuration theory and agency theory. Information sharing can result in moral hazard that needs to be addressed to facilitate information transfers needed during emergency services. Developing a solution to the moral hazard issue associated with information...

PSYCHIATRIC activity that CLASSIFICATION IS A PROFOUNDLY IMPORTANT directs subsequent treatment decisions, assumptions about etiology, and prognostic considerations. While the ideal classification scheme would be clear, concise, comprehensively inclusive of, and hospitable to, the entities under consideration, in practice, all classification systems reflect tradeoffs and embody flawed structure...

Over the course of analyzing data from a series of socio-technical ICT studies, we have developed a multi-dimensional concept of a social actor to guide qualitative data collection and analysis. Three information and communication technology (ICT) studies have been used to develop and refine the concept: a mid-1990's study of online information services use, a 4year study of intranet developmen...

The implementation of Information Technology (IT) is always associated with a series of complex organizational change issues. For this reason, the literature on IT-enabled organizational change is growing large and spans across management science, organizational development, and Information Systems (IS) research. Despite the handful of research in IT-enabled organizational change, the change in...

This article shows how the technical hype of 1990s has been transformed into the e-business organizations at the beginning of the 21st century. The authors took an interpretive stance in this study, grounded theory, and investigated the ontology of virtual organization by the metaphorical analysis. The metaphorical analysis adopted in this study provides the analytical power to conceptualize th...

Workplace bullying is a significant and complex international issue that presents a challenge for organisations to manage. It is proposed that Giddens’ Theory of Structuration (1984) may provide a basis for examining the social processes involved in the approaches adopted by organisations to manage workplace bullying. This paper presents a method for understanding organisational issues related ...

Social systems theory is dominated by a reductionistic individualism and a dualistic functionalism. Especially the latter doesn’t adequately integrate the human being. In order to avoid dualism, mechanistic determinism and reductionism, a dialectical concept of social systems that is based on the notion of self-organization seems necessary. In order to establish a dialectical theory of social s...

Most theoretical perspectives used to explain the use and effects of communication and decision support technologies assume someform of technological a&rminism. lnwnsisten&s in the research jindings have prompted theorists to reject the assumptions of technological determinism in favor of an emergent perspective. To date, only adaptive structuration theo y CAST) offers the promise of satisfying...

This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion of the value of structuration theory as ‘an ontology of potentials’ for empirical research in accounting. In engaging with the two main papers in this issue, it considers issues of methodological bracketing and the extent to which the work of Coad and Glyptis (2013) offers an agency focus rather than an institutional focus for analysis. F...