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Using Concepts from Structuration Theory and Consequence of Modernity to Understand IS Deployment in Health-Care Setting

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The use of structuration theory in the field of information systems is long debated. Questions on its applicability and suitability have led to many insightful studies and papers in this area. We, in this chapter, draw on these studies and provide a complementary view on use of ST in studying IS deployment. While doing so, we draw on Giddens’s recent work and utilise telehealth implementation case study as an example.

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Abbreviations

CM:

Consequence of modernity

ICT:

Information communication technology

IS:

Information systems

ST:

Structuration theory

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK

    Urvashi Sharma, Julie Barnett & Malcolm Clarke

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  1. , School of Business and Economics, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, Wales, SA2 8PP, United Kingdom

    Yogesh K. Dwivedi

  2. IMD, Ch. de Bellerive 23, Lausanne, 1001, Switzerland

    Michael R. Wade

  3. Principia College, Maybeck Place 1, Elsah, 62028, Illinois, USA

    Scott L. Schneberger

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Sharma, U., Barnett, J., Clarke, M. (2012). Using Concepts from Structuration Theory and Consequence of Modernity to Understand IS Deployment in Health-Care Setting. In: Dwivedi, Y., Wade, M., Schneberger, S. (eds) Information Systems Theory. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 29. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9707-4_8

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