Twenty years after the promise of Information Systems enabling Organizational Transformation (IS-enabled OT), what have we learned? This paper reviews the literature in order to better understand this phenomenon. As specialists in IS, strategy and organizational studies, we analyze the discourse on OT found in the strategy, organizational theory and IS literature, and identify four structuring ...

Which epistemological contribution social studies of Information Systems can give to organization studies? In particular, which contribution the actor-network perspective can give? Social studies of Information Systems (Avgerou et al. 2004) are influenced by social studies of science and technology. Social studies of information systems arguments are based on case studies. The question we would...

Executive Summary The importance of information systems as a strategic resource to organizations and the amazing rate of information system technology evolution are widely recognized. As a result, undergraduate courses in this field need frequent updating to remain effective. This article presents a model to restructure the teaching of information systems. This model has received inputs from st...

In a study involving 52 large organizations in the computer components industry, the relationship between information technology structure and organizational Gompetitive strategy was examined. The results indicate that the information technology structure, as measured by the locus of responsibilities for information systems, is strongly related to competitive strategy. For example, an organizat...

StructurANTion can be seen as a framework for interpretatively researching organizational structurated orders in which humans and information systems, in combination, exhibit agency. This paper argues for, and describes, how the StructurANTion network may be used to understand the integrated development of information systems as constituted by humans and non-humans within organizational actor n...

To continuously improve its knowledge and to identify problems and possible solutions, an organization requires understanding of the way business is aligned with the organizational strategy and how information systems are supporting the business. This paper presents an object-oriented framework, presented as a UML Profile, for describing three organizational concerns: strategy and goals, busine...

This paper describes a forthcoming research project exploring how technological systems are used to tether paramedic work practices to organizational bases when work goes on the move. Inspired by Mobilities scholarship in both crisis response and mobile work, this paper describes a project, Work on The Move, specifically discussing how information systems support and are utilized during the tra...

Most ICT projects failed due to various factors including organizational issues and leaders who did not sufficiently assess organizational readiness for change. Although various perspectives and criteria have been used by researchers to measure organizational readiness, reported evidence on its measurement in information systems (IS) adoption is still limited and unclear, which calls for clarif...

The literature acknowledges the relationship between the study of biological systems and that of social and technological systems. However, while the relationship between the two seems to offer valuable insights, there has been little literature on how insights from the research on information behavior of cells can inform the research of organizational IS. Reflecting this literature gap, the ob...

In contrast to findings in other countries, and surprisingly in view of the literature, high tech economic activity in the Netherlands is not spread geographically according to either relevant labour market characteristics or because of localized agglomeration effects. Instead, statistical analysis shows that the Netherlands is an urban field, and that the knowledge infrastructure is the only v...