Crisis response is generally acknowledged as a crucial aspect of crisis management. Crisis response often requires a need to improvise because the circumstances demand spontaneous innovation that departs from established procedures. Although previous research has acknowledged improvisation as a...

We explore Information and Communication Technology (ICT) support to organizational improvisation during crisis response by completing three studies. The first study confirms diversity in research on improvisation and suggests that author’s perspectives on improvisation diverge with respect to...

This papers aims at understanding the role of sense when actors improvise during crisis. Literature about improvisation show little explanation of how individual improvisation becomes collective and coherent. The use of the concept of sense as a bridge between crisis and improvisation enable us...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), like groupware systems, intranet or videoconference, enable team members to work on th e same project but from different places. Some teams are called virtual because they exist only through the network. As the work is geographically...

Recent studies have emphasized the potential of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) for companies. However, so far, researchers have paid little attention to usages and affordances of ESN. To investigate this research issue, we anchor our analysis on Leonardi’s Affordances Theory. A case study...

This research aims at examining the appropriation of a collaborative information system (IS), and more precisely users’ intentions to continue using such system. In order to understand the phenomenon of IS continuance, we analyze users’ behaviors, perceptions and their relationship with the...

Drawing on prior research of Thatcher and Perrewé (2002) and of Ahuja and Thatcher (2005), the purpose of this study is to furthering our understanding of the impacts of broad and IT-specific work environment variables on individual differences influencing IT use. A survey has been conducted...

The rapid evolution, expansion, and integration of technology into our everyday lives changes the way that we understand the relationship between technology and people. A dualistic relationship, with technology at one end and people at the other, no longer serves as a clear approach in...

Several IS studies have shown that well-designed websites positively influence users, capturing visitor attention and encouraging return behaviors. However, little attention has been paid to non commercial and cultural websites such as museum websites. This study draws on human-computer...

This papers aims at understanding the role of sense when actors improvise during crisis. Literature about improvisation show little explanation of how individual improvisation becomes collective and coherent. The use of the concept of sense as a bridge between crisis and improvisation enable us...