A revelatory case study has been conducted to investigate the influence of the organizational culture on risks in IT projects. Following the Grounded Theory Methodology, we interviewed 26 experts from a large financial service provider. We selected a company from the cooperative banking sector, which makes this case unique. With Giddens’ Structuration Theory as a theoretical lens, we show how t...

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...

Out society is changing. This statement does not necessarily follow from the observation of a particular society, but can also be derived from the attention sociologists (and others) pay to the theme of a changing society. There are numerous examples of sociological analyses of the 'new' society, like the post-modern society (Bell, Lyotard), the risk society (Beck), the global society (Giddens,...