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作者：Njihia, James Muranga; Merali, Yasmin
作者单位：University of Nairobi; University of Warwick
摘要：This paper demonstrates the value of Archer's morphogenetic approach (MA) in understanding and explaining the complexity of the broader context within which many developing country information and communication technology (ICT) projects are implemented. It does this by using MA's analytical and explanatory apparatus to examine the evolution of the context of public sector ICT provision in Kenya over the period 1963-2006. In addition to demonstrating the practical value of MA, the paper contrib...
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作者：Faulkner, Philip; Runde, Jochen
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge
摘要：The transformational model of social activity (TMSA), in many ways the centerpiece of critical realism, has been widely used in areas of information systems research. However, little has been done so far to develop a systematic theory of the nature, position, and identity of technological objects within the context of the TMSA. Our aim in this paper is to fill this gap, paying particular attention to the important category of nonmaterial technological objects that lie at the heart of modern in...
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作者：Mingers, John; Mutch, Alistair; Willcocks, Leslie
作者单位：University of Kent; Nottingham Trent University; University of Nottingham; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者：Dobson, Philip; Jackson, Paul; Gengatharen, Denise
作者单位：Edith Cowan University
摘要：Universal fast broadband is currently being implemented by the Australian government. It is the largest single project in Australia's history. Represented as a nation-building exercise by the government and many public and private promoters, it is vilified by others as a massive waste of taxpayers' money. Ultimately the target of successful universal availability will require that metropolitan installations subsidize rural adoption. The take-up of these facilities, particularly in regional and...
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作者：Goes, Paulo B.
作者单位：University of Arizona
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作者：Xu, Jingjun (David); Benbasat, Izak; Cenfetelli, Ronald T.
作者单位：Wichita State University; University of British Columbia
摘要：Wixom and Todd (2005) integrated the user satisfaction and the technology acceptance literatures to theorize about and account for the influence of the information technology artifact on usage. Based on Wixom and Todd's integrated model of technology usage, we propose the 3Q model by investigating the role of service quality (SQ), in addition to system quality (SysQ) and information quality (IQ), in website adoption. Attention to SQ is critical, as consumer websites have increasingly become th...
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作者：Volkoff, Olga; Strong, Diane M.
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; Worcester Polytechnic Institute
摘要：Convincing arguments for using critical realism as an underpinning for theories of IT-associated organizational change have appeared in the Information Systems literature. A central task in developing such theories is to uncover the generative mechanisms by which IT is implicated in organizational change processes, but to do so, we must explain how critical realism's concept of generative mechanisms applies in an IS context. Similarly, convincing arguments have been made for using Gibson's (19...
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作者：Zachariadis, Markos; Scott, Susan; Barrett, Michael
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Cambridge
摘要：Building on recent developments in mixed methods, we discuss the methodological implications of critical realism and explore how these can guide dynamic mixed-methods research design in information systems. Specifically, we examine the core ontological assumptions of CR in order to gain some perspective on key epistemological issues such as causation and validity, and illustrate how these shape our logic of inference in the research process through what is known as retroduction. We demonstrate...
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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要：The goal of this study is to augment explanations of how newly implemented technologies enable network change within organizations with an understanding of when such change is likely to happen. Drawing on the emerging literature on technology affordances, the paper suggests that informal network change within interdependent organizational groups is unlikely to occur until users converge on a shared appropriation of the new technology's features such that the affordances the technology enables ...
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作者：Zhang, Xiaojun; Venkatesh, Viswanath
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：By distinguishing between employees' online and offline workplace communication networks, this paper incorporates technology into social network theory to understand employees' job performance. Specifically, we conceptualize network ties as direct and indirect ties in both online and offline workplace communication networks, thus resulting in four distinct types of ties. We theorize that employees' ties in online and offline workplace communication networks are complementary resources that int...
