Intergovernmental Conferences are generally seen as key events in the design of the European Union. This paper challenges this traditional view. Arguing that treaty reform should be regarded as a continuous process rather than a series of events, the paper develops a procedural understanding of...

Since Barley’s use of Giddens in 1986, structurational approaches have become an important theoretical perspective within the IS research community. This paper introduces an intermediate theory of this stream through three socio-technical archetypes, i.e. stylised socio-technical situations...

Telehealth and telecare research has been dominated by efficacy trials. The field lacks a sophisticated theorisation of [a] what matters to older people with assisted living needs; [b] how illness affects people's capacity to use technologies; and [c] the materiality of assistive technologies....

The study sheds light on why certain financial institutions exposed themselves, and the financial system as a whole, to excessive risk. The study examines the human side of the crisis and its relationship to certain organizational and sector-wide practices dominant at the time. The study draws...

Stress, disputes, work overload, pressure, control but also time saving, motivation, accessibility…. are all words that are frequently used when talking about e-mails particularly in connection with hierarchical relations. Although researchers and practitioners acknowledge the effects this...

Recognising the importance of value-creating systems in action is vital for understanding how value is co-created through resource integration and mutual service provision. Value-creating systems are inherently dynamic and grounded in on-going human action. This article adopts structuration and...

The study is based on viewing management accounting and control systems (MACS) as dynamic, organisationally embedded social phenomena whose main objective is to generate and coordinate action. In organisational communication processes many different languages are used and people have to...

<Para ID="Par2">Much of the BPM literature views business process design and implementation as a top-down process that is built on strategic alignment and managerial control. While this view has enabled the design of many IT artifacts for business processes, it is inconsistent with the observation that...</para>