Our research-in-progress uses Adaptive Structuration Theory to explain the evolving characteristics of cyber-crime – specifically, the increasing use of computing and networking technology by criminals to facilitate financial fraud and theft. Our goal is to understand the processes by which the perpetrators of cyber-crime form technology-based social networks.

This paper reflects on the theoretical aspects of an earlier ontological study. The study was a single case which explored the use of an agricultural decision support system by women cotton growers in the Australian cotton industry and the effect of its use on their farm management roles on family cotton farms. The study was informed through a multi-paradigmatic conceptual framework with struct...

Anthony Giddens’ Structuration Theory is probably one of the sociological theories more directly referenced and more widely used, in a variety of ways, in organizational research. Why is that, and what does it mean for organizational research? In this paper we explore this issue by reviewing some early, influential contributions, within the organizational field, that used Giddens’ theory as the...

In this conceptual paper, we present a structuration-based theory of leadership behaviours in virtual teams, that is to say, in self-organizing technology-supported small groups such as Free/Libre Open Source Software development teams. Such teams are often composed of members of relatively equal status or who are so disparate in background that formal organizational status seems irrelevant, re...

This paper first suggests a revision on the definition of telecommunications transformation strategies in literature, and then uses it to investigate China’s experiences of telecommunications reform by drawing on structuration theory. The authors conclude that a strategy of telecommunications market transformation must be formed based on the economic and political environment, telecommunication...

This paper explores and evaluates a specific analytical framework that can be used by vocational and education and training (VET) researchers to gain understanding of the complex and ‘evolving’ relations of formal and informal learning within organisations. Giddens’ Structuration Theory (1984), while developed to explain the cyclic nature of broader societal relations, is also useful tool for e...

Digitalization of the AEC-FM industry has resulted in reassessment knowledge, knowledge management, teaching and learning, workflows networks, roles, relevance. Consequently, new approaches to learning meet demands jobs abilities, channels communication, a awareness are required. Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers opportunities address some current challenges through BIM-enabled educat...

OBJECTIVES Using strong structuration theory, we aimed to understand the adoption and implementation of an electronic clinical audit and feedback tool to support medicine optimisation for patients in primary care. DESIGN This is a qualitative study informed by strong structuration theory. The analysis was thematic, using a template approach. An a priori set of thematic codes, based on strong ...

Although different strands of “post-approaches” and “post-theories”, for example, grounded theory and structuration theory, have gained popularity in Information Systems (IS) research they are not without problems. We present critical realism as an alternative philosophical underpinning for IS research. Critical realism starts from an ontology that identifies structures and mechanisms through w...