Capturing the Complexity in Advanced Technology Use: Adaptive Structuration Theory
- G. DeSanctis, M. S. Poole
- Computer Science
- 1 May 1994
The past decade has brought advanced information technologies, which include electronic messaging systems, executive information systems, collaborative systems, group decision support systems, and…
Explaining Development and Change in Organizations
- A. V. D. Ven, M. S. Poole
- Business
- 1 July 1995
This article introduces four basic theories that may serve as building blocks for explaining processes of change in organizations: life cycle, teleology, dialectics, and evolution. These four…
Alternative Approaches for Studying Organizational Change
- A. H. van de Ven, M. S. Poole
- Business
- 1 September 2005
Scholars hold different views about whether organizations consist of things or processes and about variance or process methods for conducting research. By combining these two dimensions, we develop a…
Understanding the use of Group Decision Support Systems: The Theory of Adaptive Structuration
- M. S. Poole, G. DeSanctis
- Computer Science
- 1990
Affect in Web Interfaces: A Study of the Impacts of Web Page Visual Complexity and Order
- Liqiong Deng, M. S. Poole
- Psychology, Computer ScienceMIS Q.
- 1 December 2010
A research model is developed to explain the relationships among visual complexity and order design features of a webpage, induced emotional responses in users, and users' approach behaviors toward the website as moderated by users' metamotivational states.
What Is Personalization? Perspectives on the Design and Implementation of Personalization in Information Systems
- Haiyan Fan, M. S. Poole
- BusinessJournal of Organizational Computing and…
- 1 January 2006
A high-level framework for classifying approaches to personalization that delineates fundamental assumptions about personalization in the literature and relates them to strategies for developing personalization systems is presented.
Antecedents of flow in online shopping: a test of alternative models
- Y. Guo, M. S. Poole
- BusinessInformation Systems Journal
- 1 July 2009
Results show that web site complexity affects flow through the mediating effects of the three preconditions of flow, and the theoretical and practical implications of this finding are discussed.
Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research
- M. S. Poole, A. V. D. Ven, K. Dooley, Michael E. Holmes
- Business
- 16 November 2000
In a world of organizations that are in constant change, scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to…
Using Paradox to Build Management and Organization Theories
- M. S. Poole, A. V. D. Ven
- Philosophy
- 1 October 1989
Most contemporary theory construction methodologies attempt to build internally consistent theories of limited scope. Relatively little attention has been paid to the opportunities offered by…
Methods for Studying Innovation Development in the Minnesota Innovation Research Program
- A. V. D. Ven, M. S. Poole
- Economics
- 1 August 1990
This paper describes the methods being used by the Minnesota Innovation Research Program to develop and test a process theory of innovation which explains how and why innovations develop over time…
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