Leaving Nothing to Chance: Modeling the Proactive Structuration of a New Technology
Adaptive structuration theory (AST, DeSanctis and Poole 1994) describes how people come to understand and use a technology. In this paper we develop the idea of proactive structuration--how social networking can be proactively managed in order to speed the comprehensive adaptation of a technology within a community of users. We examine two facets of proactive structuration--formal institutionalization of a community of practice and socialization of users--and stochastically model the impact of proactive structuration on comprehensive adaptation latency. Implications for the effective management of new technology adoption are discussed.
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2009
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Authors: | Northcraft, Gregory B. ; Griffith, Terri L. ; Fuller, Mark A. |
Institutions: | College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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