Theorising big IT programmes in healthcare: strong structuration theory meets actor-network theory.

By Trisha Greenhalgh, R. Stones. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2010

391 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Carl R. May
2. S. Hinder
3. Trisha Greenhalgh
4. P. Nilsen

In Political Science and International Relations

1. S. Hinder
2. Carl R. May
3. Trisha Greenhalgh

In Sociology and Political Science

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2. Carl R. May
3. Trisha Greenhalgh
4. Allison Worth
5. Aziz Sheikh
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Citations in the corpus

• Towards a general theory of implementation (2013, background): “In this context, Normalization Process Theory [8] is one of a number of theories – including Activity Theory [75], Labor Process Theory [76], Structuration Theory [77], and Neo-Institutionalist Theory [78,79] – that can be applied to understand agents at work within implementation processes.”
• Can Digital Technology Enhance Social Connectedness Among Older Adults? A Feasibility Study (2019, methodology): “To assess feasibility, we studied adoption and use through a recursive approach to technology that examined the app as used “in the wild,” considering the interplay of users, technologies, and contexts (Greenhalgh & Stones, 2010).”
• Adoption, non-adoption, and abandonment of a personal electronic health record: case study of HealthSpace (2010, methodology): “We refined these generic approaches into a more specific theory driven methodology, described in detail elsewhere.”
• Beyond Adoption: A New Framework for Theorizing and Evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Health and Care Technologies (2017, methodology): “Among others, Lupton [26], May and Finch [27], Nicolini [28], Pols and Willems [29], Maniatopoulos et al [30], and our own team [31] have used different approaches to produce rich theorizations of the unfolding fortunes of technology-supported programs in health care.”
• Actor-Network Theory and its role in understanding the implementation of information technology developments in healthcare (2010, background): “It has therefore been proposed that ANT may be best used in a combination with other theoretical approaches, especially in relation to analysis and interpretation [47,56,57].”