View source for List of theoretical frameworks

These are not frameworks in the traditional sense.

These are ideas about how humans process information.

=List of Frameworks=

 Absorptive capacity theory.  
 Actor network theory. 
 Adaptive structuration theory
 Administrative behavior, theory of
 Agency theory
 Argumentation theory
 Behavioral decision theory
 Boundary object theory
 Chaos theory
 Cognitive dissonance theory
 Cognitive fit theory
 Cognitive load theory
 Competitive strategy (Porter)
 Complexity theory
 Contingency theory
 Critical realism theory
 Critical social theory
 Critical success factors, theory of
 Customer Focus Theory
 Deferred action, theory of
 Delone and McLean IS success model
 Diffusion of innovations theory
 Dynamic capabilities
 Elaboration likelihood model
 Embodied social presence theory
 Equity theory
 Evolutionary theory
 Expectation confirmation theory
 Feminism theory
 Fit-Viability theory
 Flow theory
 Game theory
 Garbage can theory
 General systems theory
 General deterrence theory
 Hermeneutics
 Illusion of control
 Impression management, theory of
 Information processing theory
 Institutional theory
 International information systems theory
 Keller's Motivational Model
 Knowledge-based theory of the firm
 Language action perspective
 Information asymmetry theory (lemon market)
 Management fashion theory
 Media richness theory
 Media synchronicity theory
 Modal aspects, theory of
 Multi-attribute utility theory
 Organizational culture theory
 Organizational information processing theory
 Organizational knowledge creation
 Organizational learning theory
 Portfolio theory
 Process virtualization theory
 Prospect theory
 Punctuated equilibrium theory
 Real options theory
 Resource-based view of the firm
 Resource dependency theory
 Self-efficacy theory
 SERVQUAL
 Signaling theory
 Social capital theory
 Social cognitive theory
 Social exchange theory
 Social learning theory
 Social network theory
 Social shaping of technology
 Socio-technical theory
 Soft systems theory
 Stakeholder theory
 Structuration theory
 Task closure theory
 Task-technology fit
 Technological frames of reference
 Technology acceptance model
 Technology dominance, theory of
 Technology-organization-environment framework
 Theory of collective action
 Theory of planned behavior
 Theory of reasoned action
 Transaction cost economics
 Transactive memory theory
 Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology. 
 Usage control model
 Work systems theory
 Yield shift theory of satisfaction