Aim/Purpose. COVID-19 was an unprecedented disruptive event that accelerated the shift to remote work and encouraged widespread adoption of digital tools in organizations. This empirical study conducted from organizational-strategic perspective, with aim examining how pandemic outbreak affected employees’ use organizational information systems (IS) as reflected frequency. Background. To date, o...

The concepts of power and authority are inherent in human organizations of any type. In some organizations power relations on individuals are defined explicitly and formalized in organizational documentation. In other organizations power relations are implicit, less strict and may change depending on contextual conditions. As power relations have important consequences for organizational viabil...

University of Jyväskylä, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, PO Box 35, FIN-40014, Finland; Agder University College, Department of Information Systems, PO Box 422, 4604, Kristiansand, Norway; University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G6, Canada; University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science, University ...

Despite of the rapid technical development, failures in information systems implementation are common and it seems obvious that the implementation of inter-organizational systems (IOS) include all the same possibilities for failures as intra-organizational systems – and unfortunately even some more. In this paper, we present some empirically proven means for avoiding problems during the impleme...

This paper reviews and assesses the emerging research literature on information technology and organizational learning. After discussing issues of meaning and measurement, we identify and assess two main streams of research: studies that apply organizational learning concepts to the process of implementing and using information technology in organizations; and studies concerned with the design ...

Information Systems are increasingly becoming essential to the success of business organizations. They play a central role in the success of almost all components of the organization such as business decision-making, business strategy formulation, business goal modeling, managing organizational resources, structure, managing organizational data etc. However, protecting information systems and o...