The Recursive Dualism of Technology: Reconstructing the Process of Technology Adaptation in Organizations

Technology, as a major constituent of contemporary society, is intimately connected with politics, economics, culture, and all forms of social and personal life. In this book, the Recursive Dualism of Technology (RDT) model is developed as a new model to provide an understanding to how technology is experienced and the way technology adaptation unfolds in organizations. RDT explains how technology shapes and also is shaped by organizational affairs at all levels of an organization. The RDT model have also been empirically evaluated in five real-life case studies of technology adaptation in four different organizations. Case studies are compared and contrasted to empirically evaluate the RDT model and discuss the process of technology adaptation in organizations.