Improving success with information technology using an organizational epistemology

How Organizational Identity influences Information Technology (IT) Outsourcing Success

Corporate Information Technology (IT) functions are under increasing pressure to succeed in their IT outsourcing (ITO) arrangements. Studies of ITO success have in the past mainly explored its operational and financial aspects. At the same time there is a dearth of research on broader organizational antecedents and outcomes of ITO. This study examines the effect of organizational identity on ou...

The Impact Analysis of Information Technology on Organizational Success

Information technology success has been widely discussed in the past two decades. As systems and technologies are being improved and developed, discussions on their effectiveness and evaluation on their success have been continuously debated by researchers, scholars and practitioners throughout the years. Besides the major concern of information technology effectiveness, this study identifies a...

An epistemology of information technology models for pervasive computing

The present paper introduces the digital realm as a dynamic, Darwinian ecosystem, then analyses the emergence of the concept of pervasive computing, and finally develops an account of information and communication technologies (ICT), their evolution, and a roadmap for their potential future development. The paper then examines the constraints and the evolutionary pressures acting upon ICT throu...

Improving safety with information technology.

From the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine (D.W.B.), and the Department of Surgery (A.A.G.), Brigham and Women’s Hospital; the Center for Applied Medical Information Systems, Partners HealthCare System (D.W.B.); and Harvard Medical School (D.W.B., A.A.G.) — all in Boston. Address reprint requests to Dr. Bates at the Division of General Medicine and Primary Ca...

Information System Success: Individual and Organizational Determinants