WEEK 1: Structuration: The key theoretical framework and lens >
Structurational model of technology
Interaction between Technology and organizations
Scope: consisting of technology
Role: interaction between tech and organizations
Human actions are enabled and constrained by structures
Dynamic process
Dialectical: acting trough opposing forces
helps to understand tensions and instability
The duality of technology (Orlikowski)
Fundamental elements of social interaction that actors in organizations create and recreate
Power
Norms
Meaning
Two premises of the SMT
Duality of technology
Interpretive flexibility
design mode
use mode
Components:
Technology
Institutional poperties of organisations
Human agents
Arrows:
Arrow A: Technology only comes into existance trough human action (use mode + design mode)
Arrow B: Technology is used by workers (Tech is both facilitating and constraining = dual influence)
Arrow C: Nature of human actions, shaped by organizational contexts (What is symply done [no tech])
Arrow D: Human action when it uses the technology, acts upon institutional properties