Strategies and policies for the adoption and development of interorganizational systems
require further understanding of the theoretical background to these systems. An argument
is made for development of theory that is multi-level, processual and has an emergent
perspective. Such theory is needed to deal with a context where environmental influences
are important in addition to complex interactions between organizational activities at the
micro-level and industry structure at the macro-level. The use of structuration theory as a …