Information technology artefacts as structuring devices in organizations: Design, appropriation and use issues

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 693-707

  Masino, Giovanni ^a   Zamarian, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artefacts; Decision processes; Negotiation; Rules; Structuration

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DECISION PROCESSES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0141998617     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(03)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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