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Modeling Sociotechnical Change in IS with a Quantitative Longitudinal Approach: The PPR Method

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Date
2007
Dewey
Gestion des entreprises
Sujet
Technology-organization interaction; sociotechnical process modelling; Process Patterns Recognition; critical realism; Structuration; methodology of research; longitudinal methods; e-learning
JEL code
M15; M12
Journal issue
International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction
Volume
3
Number
2
Publication date
2007
Article pages
71-95
Publisher
IGI Global
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jthi.2007040105
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/4818
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Author
de Vaujany, François-Xavier
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
The following article suggests a critical realistic framework, which aims at modeling sociotechnical change linked to end-users' IT appropriation: the "archetypal approach". The basic situations it includes (the "sociotechnical archetypes"), and the possible appropriative trajectories that combine them, together with three propositions linked to the model, are developed. They are illustrated by means of a case study describing the implementation of an e-learning system within a French university. The paper then presents an instrumentation of the theoretical framework, based on a quantitative longitudinal approach: the Process Patterns Recognition (PPR) method. This one draws mainly on Doty, Glick and Huber (1993, 1994) who propose to evaluate the distance between organizational archetypes and empirical configurations by means of Euclidean distance calculus. The adaptation consists in evaluating the distance between appropriative trajectories (embodied by series of theoretically specified vectors) and empirical processes linked to the implementation of computerized tools in organizations. The PPR method is then applied to the same organizational setting as the one related to the case study. It validates the relevance of this type of a research strategy, which makes it possible to model sociotechnical dynamics related to end-users' IT appropriations.

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