Same technology, different outcome? Reinterpreting Barley's technology as an occasion for structuring

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 689-703

  Hunter III, Starling David ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

ethnography; organizational consequences; organizational structure; regression analysis; structuration; technology

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; ETHNOGRAPHY; ORGANIZATIONAL CONSEQUENCES; ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENTS; STRUCTURATION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958615867     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.33     Document Type: Article

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