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When institutional logics meet information and communication technologies : examining hybrid information practices in Ghana’s agriculture
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Slavova, Mira and Karanasios, Stan (2018) When institutional logics meet information and communication technologies : examining hybrid information practices in Ghana’s agriculture. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 19 (9). pp. 775-812. 4. doi:10.17705/1jais.00509 ISSN 1536-9323.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00509
Abstract
In this paper, we describe how changes in the availability of information artifacts—in particular, information and communication technologies (ICTs)—among smallholder farmers in Ghana, led to a process of hybridization of information practices, and how this process could be linked to underlying institutional change. We use the notions of institutional carriers and activity systems to study the evolution of the prevailing “smallholder” institutional logic of Ghanaian agriculture toward an incoming “value-chain” institutional logic concerned with linking farmers to output markets, improving the knowledge base in agriculture, and increasing its information intensity. We draw on a mixed-methods approach, including in-depth qualitative interviews, focus groups, observations, and detailed secondary quantitative data. We cultivate activity theory as a practice-based lens for structuring inquiry into institutional change. We find that information artifacts served to link the activities of farmers that were embedded in the smallholder logic with those of agricultural-development actors that promoted the value-chain logic. Hybridization occurred through the use of artifacts with different interaction modalities. In terms of conceptualizing change, our findings suggest that hybridization of the two logics may be an intermediary point in the long transition from the smallholder toward the value-chain logic.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Association for Information Systems | ||||||
Publisher: | Association of Information Systems | ||||||
ISSN: | 1536-9323 | ||||||
Official Date: | 30 September 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 19 | ||||||
Number: | 9 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 775-812 | ||||||
Article Number: | 4 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.17705/1jais.00509 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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