Theories yet to be summarized

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Theories Used in IS Research wiki site editors

Theories still to be summarized:

  • Activity theory
  • Change theory
  • Communication theory
  • Communities of practice / Situated learning
  • Critical realism
  • Critical systems thinking
  • Conflict theory
  • Decision theory
  • Design Theory
  • Ecology theory
  • Ethnomethodology
  • Expectancy theory
  • Information integration theory
  • Markus' IT power relationship
  • Organizational culture
  • Organizational learning
  • Phenomenology
  • Portfolio theory
  • Pragmatic systems thinking
  • Prospect theory
  • Resistance, theories of
  • Sensemaking, theory of
  • Social learning theory