Active participation of members is considered essential to the success of virtual communities. We incorporated the Adaptive Structuration Theory and Expectancy-Value Theory to propose a conceptual model in explaining active participation in problem solving virtual communities from a learning perspective. In this model, learning orientation and learning expectancy were identified as predictors o...

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...

This paper draws upon Giddens’s Structuration Theory to provide a conceptualization of information literacy, which conventionally has been limited to librarian and educational studies, and usually perceived at the level of individual skills. The structurational conceptualization expands it to be more integrated with social, cultural, and institutional dimensions. An empirical study in two remot...

Taking a structuration perspective while integrating reciprocity research in economics, this study examines the dynamics of reciprocal interactions in social Q&A communities. We postulate that individual users of social Q&A constantly adjust their kindness into the direction of the observed benefit and effort of others. Collective reciprocity emerges from this pattern of conditional strategy of...

Declarative definition of multimedia presentation such as provided by SMIL standard can be considered as the most significant advance in the multimedia integration domain. The work presented here proposes an abstract way to use animations in this domain. That provides flexibility, no redundancy, easiness to maintain and reuse of animations in authoring and presenting multimedia documents. The m...

In an advancement of Adaptive Structuration Theory (AST), Wheeler and Valacich (1996) offer Process Restricted Adaptive Structuration Theory (PRAST) as a means by which GSS appropriation may be assessed. Using an external assessment involving microcoding, they demonstrated in their study that so-called appropriation mediators may enhance the faithful appropriation of GSS structures. We offer fu...

RÉSUMÉ. Les classes et la spécialisation apportent simultanément structuration et souplesse aux programmes objets. Ces deux qualités sont, malgré tout, souvent considérées comme insuffisantes, comme en témoignent les nombreuses propositions d’extension du modèle (aspects, modules, etc.). Cet article propose deux notions couplées de raffinement de classes et de modules, la première apportant la ...

International Manufacturing Joint Ventures (IMJV) are a challenge for managers when exploitingbundled resources for growth performances. From an intra firm perspective it is argued that because of lack of organizational memory in an IMJV, managers must construct an administrative framework which guides organizational members in replicating learning, on how to deploy machines and methods, and es...

This chapter argues that the three most commonly used perspectives in conducting research on business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce-transaction cost economics, electronic market hypothesis, and network analysis-have inadequately explained the unfolding nature of how B2B intermediaries are being employed in industry today. We argue that these perspectives are insufficient because they assume that ...