...Abel Duarte Alonso; Oanh Thi Kim Vu; Seng Kiat Kok; Michelle O'Shea Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine adaptation to a dynamic business environment from the perspective of family and non-family firms. Furthermore, the study provides a comparative component and proposes a theoretical...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Critical realism Identity Information technology Adaptation Identity is an integral part of organizational actors’ life. This is readily apparent in even a cursory glance at information systems (IS) case studies (Alvarez, 2008 ; Barrett et al...

... to the argument, which has been done in the past. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use co-evolutionary theory as a case against Carr's argument by showing that Carr has only looked at the growth of IT from a population ecology perspective and has failed to anticipate the adaptive nature...