Adaptive Structuration Theory
Marshall Scott Poole
Group and Public Communication—Group Decision Making
Organizational Communication
Theory Overview (7th Edition)
Abstracts appear in Appendix A of the text
Structuration is the production and reproduction of social systems by people's use of rules and resources in interaction. Communication matters when groups make decisions. Quality of structure means that rules and resources members use will affect decisions, and in turn those structures will be affected by those decisions. (Socio-cultural and cybernetic traditions)