Examining Rural Adoption Of Broadband – Critical Realist Perspectives
Summary. Australia's National Broadband Network requires rural communities to adopt broadband technology for the project's success. This paper argues that critical realism provides a useful theoretical framework for understanding the complex social, political, and technical factors influencing rural broadband adoption. The authors introduce three critical realist frameworks and Archer's morphogenetic model as tools to examine how these factors interact in rural regions.
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Dobson, P., Jackson, P., & Gengatharen, D.. (2011). Examining Rural Adoption Of Broadband – Critical Realist Perspectives. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2011/56
Dobson, Philip, et al. “Examining Rural Adoption Of Broadband – Critical Realist Perspectives.” Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2011. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2011/56.
Dobson, Philip, Paul Jackson, and Denise Gengatharen. 2011. “Examining Rural Adoption Of Broadband – Critical Realist Perspectives.” Journal of the Association for Information Systems. http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2011/56.
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title = {Examining Rural Adoption Of Broadband – Critical Realist Perspectives},
author = {Philip Dobson and Paul Jackson and Denise Gengatharen},
journal = {Journal of the Association for Information Systems},
year = {2011},
url = {http://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2011/56}
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- Australia
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- Oceania
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- broadband-and-digital, regional-innovation-systems
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- 2026-04-28