Evolving work routines: Adaptive routinization of information technology in healthcare

Information Systems Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 565-585

  Goh, Jie Mein ^a   Gao, Guodong ^b   Agarwal, Ritu ^b  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive structuration theory; Affordances; Health information technology; Hospital routines; Narrative network; Routines; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865093602     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1110.0365     Document Type: Article

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