TY - GEN
T1 - A realist social theory of information systems
AU - Cuellar, Michael J.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Rose, Jones and Truex (2005) (RST) call for a re-examination of the relationship between the IT artefact and the organization. This paper responds to that call. It first recognizes that existing approaches such as structuration theory (ST) and actor-network theory (ANT) have difficulties accommodating information systems within organizations and thus create issues in analyzing the relationship between agencies and information systems. To address these deficiencies, this paper suggests that the realist Morphogenetic Social Theory (MST) be adopted. The paper summarizes Rose, Jones and Truex (2005), highlights issues with ST and ANT, then gives an introduction to MST. Then, it extends MST by adding a typology of technological artefacts and placing them within MST. Finally, the paper shows how MST explains information system development and implementation activities.
AB - Rose, Jones and Truex (2005) (RST) call for a re-examination of the relationship between the IT artefact and the organization. This paper responds to that call. It first recognizes that existing approaches such as structuration theory (ST) and actor-network theory (ANT) have difficulties accommodating information systems within organizations and thus create issues in analyzing the relationship between agencies and information systems. To address these deficiencies, this paper suggests that the realist Morphogenetic Social Theory (MST) be adopted. The paper summarizes Rose, Jones and Truex (2005), highlights issues with ST and ANT, then gives an introduction to MST. Then, it extends MST by adding a typology of technological artefacts and placing them within MST. Finally, the paper shows how MST explains information system development and implementation activities.
KW - Actor-network theory
KW - Morphogenetic social theory
KW - Structuration theory
KW - Structure-agency controversy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84870196822&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84870196822
SN - 9781604233810
T3 - Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007: Reaching New Heights
SP - 3829
EP - 3843
BT - Association for Information Systems - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007
T2 - 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007
Y2 - 10 August 2007 through 12 August 2007
ER -