A Foundation for the Study of IT Effects: A New Look at DeSanctis and Poole's Concepts of Structural Features and Spirit

By M. Markus, M. Silver. Journal of the AIS, 2008

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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A Theory of Organization-EHR Affordance Actualization (2014, background): “As compared to AST (DeSanctis & Poole, 1994), to which Markus and Silver (2008) contrast their affordance theorizing, the AA lens shifts from AST’s IT structures to affordances (i.e., replacing a concept located in the IT with a relational concept).”
Research Perspectives: The Anatomy of a Design Principle (2020, methodology): “While some researchers have asserted that the concept of affordances provides a suitable lens through which to study information systems’ design (Markus & Silver, 2008), little guidance has been provided about how this can be done.”
Evolving Work Routines: Adaptive Routinization of Information Technology in Healthcare (2011, background): “As defined by Markus and Silver (2008), symbolic expressions are the often intangible messages that a system communicates to its users, in this instance the healthcare providers (i.”
The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing (2013, positive): “The term has also been used as a way to explore use possibilities afforded by the design of a new technology (Markus & Silver, 2008) as well as ways to refer to interactions of features and organizational context to produce generic affordances (e.g., Treem & Leonardi, 2012; Zammuto et al., 2007).”
Technology, Humanness, and Trust: Rethinking Trust in Technology (2015, background): “In short, affordances are opportunities for action (Markus & Silver, 2008).”
Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future (2013, background): “Some are in the spirit (Markus & Silver, 2008) of engineering, such as adding, combining, or eliminating steps in a process, or upgrading hardware and software.”
Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association (2013, neutral): “As several recent studies of technology use in organizations have noted (Hutchby, 2001; Leonardi, 2010; Markus & Silver, 2008), using a relational approach to affordances to explain how a new technology merges with an existing organizational system is useful for theory in at least four ways.”
Principles for Conducting Critical Realist Case Study Research in Information Systems (2012, methodology): “It has been accepted for inclusion in MIS/OM/DS Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of eCommons.”
When Flexible Routines Meet Flexible Technologies: Affordance, Constraint, and the Imbrication of Human and Material Agencies (2011, neutral): “Markus and Silver (2008, p. 620) suggest that in terms of the relational concept of affordances… properties of objects are seen as necessary but not sufficient conditions [for changes in action]….”
The Needs-Affordances-Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media (2018, neutral): “Affordances are action possibilities afforded by a technology to users; in other words, affordances are what a user can potentially do through using the technology (Gaver 1991; Gibson 1979; Markus and Silver 2008).”
Designing for Digital Transformation: Lessons for Information Systems Research from the Study of ICT and Societal Challenges (2016, background): “Technology affordances and constraints theory (Faraj and Azad 2012; Gibson 1977, 1979; Leonardi 2011, 2013; Majchrzak and Markus 2014; Markus and Silver 2008; Treem and Leonardi 2012; Volkoff and Strong 2013; Zammuto et al. 2007) is a lens that is particularly well suited to help IS scholars build…”