Leaving Nothing to Chance: Modeling the Proactive Structuration of a New Technology

Gregory B. Northcraft, Terri L. Griffith and Mark A. Fuller
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Gregory B. Northcraft: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Terri L. Griffith: Santa Clara University
Mark A. Fuller: Washington State University

Working Papers from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business

Abstract: Adaptive structuration theory (AST, DeSanctis and Poole 1994) describes how people come to understand and use a technology. In this paper we develop the idea of proactive structuration--how social networking can be proactively managed in order to speed the comprehensive adaptation of a technology within a community of users. We examine two facets of proactive structuration--formal institutionalization of a community of practice and socialization of users--and stochastically model the impact of proactive structuration on comprehensive adaptation latency. Implications for the effective management of new technology adoption are discussed.

Date: 2009
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