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Adaptive Structuration Theory

Marshall Scott Poole

Chapter 18
Group and Public Communication—Group Decision Making

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Theory Overview

Abstracts appear in Appendix A of the 7th Edition

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)

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