Giddens's Structuration Theory and Information Systems Research

By Matthew R. Jones, Helena Karsten. MIS Q., 2008

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Subfields: Communication, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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The Social Actor Traveling the World (2007, neutral): “I presented my work on network organizations (Karsten, 1995) and on structuration theory (Jones & Karsten, 2003, 2008).”
Pervasive Decentralisation of Digital Infrastructures: A Framework for Blockchain enabled System and Use Case Analysis (2017, background): “We focus on the general purpose of information systems research discipline by describing and analysing the interdependencies between IT artifacts and their interaction with socio-technical systems [18].”
Strategizing information systems-enabled organizational transformation: A transdisciplinary review and new directions (2012, methodology): “The structurationist IS literature, such as Adaptive Structuration theory (DeSanctis and Poole, 1994) and its latest Giddensian developments (Jones and Karsten, 2008), has put considerable weight on the human agency side, i.e., on the possibility to do otherwise and to show how emergence occurs in…”
Digital technologies: tensions in privacy and data (2022, background): “Structures, which represent both the context and the outcomes of social practices (Luo, 2006), include rules, laws, social norms, roles, and resources (e.g., digital technology), such that they might constrain or enable (group and individual) agents ’ behavior (Jones & Karsten, 2008).”
Theory of Workarounds (2014, background): “The impact of workarounds on technology adaptation and usage is quite significant, but may be understated in literature that highlights other topics such as appropriation of technology in local situations [Barley, 1990; Tyre and Orlikowski, 1994; Orlikowski, 2000; Boudreau and Robey, 2005]; postimpl”
The sociomateriality of organisational life: considering technology in management research (2010, background): “While this theory does not explicitly consider technology, its focus on processes of social structuring has informed analysis of the structuring of technologies within organizations (Jones and Karsten, 2008; Roberts and Grabowski, 1996).”
What is an Information System? (2015, neutral): “[41] Jones, M.”
The Next Generation of Research on IS Use: A Theoretical Framework of Delegation to and from Agentic IS Artifacts (2021, background): “Structuration theory has been the subject of much research focus within the IS discipline (Jones and Karsten 2008; Poole 2009).”