This research aims to uncover the commodification, spatialization, and structuration of Social Media within Cyber News in Indonesia. A critical perspective was used conduct study using a case method. Through use Vincent Mosco political economy theory media, authors conclude that <em>Tribunnews.com</em>, cyber media news, object this research, makes social commodity content distribut...

Strategies and policies for the adoption and development of interorganizational systems require further understanding of the theoretical background to these systems. An argument is made for development of theory that is multi-level, processual and has an emergent perspective. Such theory is needed to deal with a context where environmental influences are important in addition to complex interac...

Six theoretical perspectives on work design are examined for their contributions to our understanding of how work is organized and designed in organizations: sociotechnical systems theory, process improvement, adaptive structuration theory, the job characteristics model, technostructural change models, and activity theory. A critique of these theories raises concerns about their ability to expl...

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...

Received: 22 November 2011 Revised: 05 May 2012 2nd Revision: 30 November 2012 3rd Revision: 15 July 2013 Accepted: 15 August 2013 Abstract Several studies explore information security awareness focusing on individual and/ or organisational aspects. This paper argues that security awareness processes are associated with interrelated changes that occur at the organisational, the technological an...

Failure to identify the right institutionalization framework has caused derailments of major public sector Digitally-Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) projects in the UK, such as the NHS-National Program for IT (NHS-NPfIT) and BBC Digital Media Initiatives (BBC-DMI). Although such cases have generated much debate among the research community, majority of the discussions have been dominated ...

Today most e-government and e-procurement research and discussion are done in a quite utilitarian and technical way. This follows the worldwide positivist and utilitarian approach to research that neglects the social, organizational, cultural, and political aspects of social life. Therefore, most research initiatives are based on a market-driven and utilitarian approach in which technology is t...

The need for appropriate interpretative and evaluative frameworks for understanding groupware and related technologies is discussed. Structuration is employed to examine some aspects of an implementation of groupware within one organization and various interpretative outcomes

The new brand of Information Systems (IS) is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and while lots of studies have used functional and networking type IS to operationalize adoption (or system usage) measures, ERP systems have yet to mature in that area. Despite system usage being an important variable in IS research over the last three decades, IS researchers have in the past on many occasions, att...