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DESCRIPTION:\n\nMr. Dominique Welt\, a doctoral student at 91ºÚÁÏÍø Universit
 y in the Information Systems area will be presenting his thesis defense en
 titled:\n\nAdapting to IT consumerization: Understanding the role of the u
 ser’s IT self-concept clarity\n\nThursday\, August 22\, 2024 at 9:00 a.m.
 \n\n(The defense will be done in Hybrid mode)\n\n \n\nStudent Committee Ch
 air: Professor Geneviève Bassellier\n\nPlease note that the presentation w
 ill be conducted in hybrid mode. If you wish to attend the presentation\, 
 please contact the PhD office for the room number.\n\n\nAbstract:\n\nIndiv
 iduals increasingly perform their work tasks using information technologie
 s (IT) which they also consume in their personal lives. In this context\, 
 the consumption of IT influences the use of IT to perform work tasks\, a t
 rend referred to as IT consumerization. Utilizing the same IT as a consume
 r for personal purposes and as a user for work purposes requires users to 
 adapt their use of the IT to fit the requirements of work tasks. Users mus
 t perform this adaptation while experiencing stress from using these IT ac
 ross multiple contexts. Furthermore\, it has been noted that organizations
  struggle to support users in their adaptation.\n\nInteracting with the sa
 me IT across multiple contexts leads users to develop multiple and heterog
 eneous beliefs about themselves as IT users\, which impact how they use IT
  to perform work tasks. While attention has been brought to the effect of 
 the content of the beliefs that individuals have toward themselves as IT u
 sers\, scarce attention has been brought to the role of the clarity of the
  organization of the beliefs that individuals have toward themselves. Unde
 rstanding the role of this concept could improve our understanding of user
  behavior in the context of IT consumerization. Indeed\, the clarity indiv
 iduals have over themselves is known to explain how individuals react and 
 adapt themselves to their environment in the psychology literature.\n\nThi
 s thesis investigates the role of the clarity of the organization of users
 ' beliefs toward themselves as IT users in explaining why they adapt thems
 elves when using consumer IT to perform work tasks. The thesis is organize
 d into three chapters: one introduction and two empirical papers. The firs
 t chapter serves as an introduction and includes a literature review regar
 ding the context of IT consumerization and the self-concept clarity concep
 t that will be adapted to study adaptation to IT consumerization in this t
 hesis.\n\nThe second chapter is an empirical paper aiming at defining and 
 measuring the clarity of the organization of individuals' beliefs toward t
 hemselves as IT users\, or their IT self-concept clarity (ITSCC). The firs
 t section of the paper defines the ITSCC construct and differentiates it f
 rom related constructs. The second section of the paper proposes and valid
 ates a scale for ITSCC and tests its utility.\n\nThe third chapter is an e
 mpirical paper taking attention to the causal impact of ITSCC when interac
 ting with IT. This paper argues that the level of ITSCC can potentially af
 fect users' adaptation of IT use based on suggestions\, depending on the m
 essage's framing. This is done through a laboratory experiment using a mic
 roblogging social networking site as a consumer IT.\n\nTogether\, these ch
 apters aim to expand our understanding of the beliefs individuals develop 
 toward themselves as IT users\, how the clarity of their organization impa
 cts the user’s interactions with IT\, and how users adapt themselves when 
 using consumer IT for work tasks. The findings from this thesis will infor
 m managers of a key trait of users impacting their interactions with IT at
  work and how IT features and policies can be designed to take account of 
 this trait.\n
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SUMMARY:PhD Thesis Defense Presentation: Dominique Welt
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