A Temporally Situated Self-Agency Theory of Information Technology Reinvention

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Abstract
Our knowledge of how users reinvent information technologies (IT) in ways that depart from their intended purposes to achieve new goals is relatively limited. Drawing on a human agency theory that situates actors in the flow of time, this paper develops a theory of IT reinvention. It identifies the key subprocesses of IT reinvention, describes two patterns of reinvention (performance-oriented and mastery-oriented), and explains how the present and the past influence the ambiguities, demands, and dilemmas inherent to each pattern. The outcomes associated with each pattern of IT reinvention are also discussed. The paper provides the theoretical foundations to understand how users reinvent IT as well as new insights into a broader range of post-adoption behaviors. 12/18/15
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Author Saggi Nevo, Dorit Nevo, and Alain Pinsonneault
Year 2016
Volume 40
Issue 1
Keywords IT reinvention, human agency, temporal orientation, prospective technological capabilities, mastery goals, performance goals, post-adoption, technology adaptation, process theory, innovation diffusion
Page Numbers 157-186
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