Article: "Structuration Theory and Conception-Reality Gaps [...]" Author: Angelina Kouroubali Rating: 5/5 - *must read*
One of the most insightful articles about the reasons why Clinical IT projects succeed or fail must be Angelina Kouroubali's article: "Structuration Theory and Conception-Reality Gaps: Addressing Cause and Effect of Implementation Outcomes in Health Care Information Systems".
Complementing Heeks work with the Giddens structuration concepts to create a single framework was clever.
From the article's abstract:
"...To facilitate the introduction of IS in health care, research should investigate the way IS affects human actions and organizational structures and the reasons it affects them...
[Giddens] Structuration theory introduces the notion of the interdependency between human actions and organizational structures. Heeks theory of conception-reality gaps helps illuminate the causes of an implementation outcome... The paper describes the two theories and how they may inform health care information systems research. It illustrates its points using examples from the field."
The article was part of the Proceedings of the 35th Conference in Information Sciences (2002) and is available in .pdf format from: Structuration Theory and Conception-Reality Gaps: Addressing Cause and Effect of Implementation Outcomes in Health Care Information Systems [1]
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http://e-healthexpert.org/kouroubali
Links:
[1] http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2002/1435/06/14350150b.pdf
