Date of Award
Fall 11-21-2016
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Computer Information Systems
First Advisor
Pr. Richard Baskerville
Second Advisor
Pr. Christophe Elie-Dit-Cosaque
Third Advisor
Pr. Michel Kalika
Fourth Advisor
Pr. Mark Keil
Fifth Advisor
Dr. Likoebe Maruping
Sixth Advisor
Pr. Isabelle Walsh
Seventh Advisor
Pr. Jessie Pallud & Pr. Carine Dominguez-Péry
Abstract
Despite the variety of literature on ‘adaptation to technology’, the literature still witnesses a gap concerning the concept of adaptation especially about its multi-level nature. Recognizing the multilevel nature of IS adaptation, we rise the challenge of conducting an alternate template analysis of three cases of adaptation to IS in order to provide complementary explanations about the phenomenon. In order to expand the comprehension of the ‘adaptation’ concept, a multi-study dissertation model is adopted. The objective is to examine the adaptation concept on three different levels: the individual, the group level, and the organizational level. This thesis aims at 1) exploring the shaping of individual adaptive actions that knowledge workers engage towards technostress with a focus on the factors that influence their adaptation process; 2) examining the adaptive performance of a group facing an newlyimplemented technology based on the adaptive structuration theory (DeSanctis and Poole 1994) under which were puzzled the concepts of affordances (Leonardi 2011, Leonardi, Huysman et al. 2013) and the structure of usage (Burton-Jones and Straub Jr 2006, Burton-Jones and Gallivan 2007); 3) examining, through an organizational learning lens (Argyris and Schon 1978), the case of an organizational adaptation to environmental technological changes examined within a managerial cognition conceptual framework (Orlikowski and Gash 1994); (Bijker 1987, Bijker 1995). To answer the different research questions, the three studies adopt a qualitative approach falling within a critical realist perspective.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/9462043
Recommended Citation
Saidani, Najma, "Towards a Better Comprehension of Adaptation to Information and Communication Technologies: A Multi-level Approach." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2016.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/9462043