Sustainability is without doubt one of the most important challenges of our time. How can we develop prosperity, without compromising the life of future generations? Companies are integrating concepts of sustainability in their marketing, corporate communications, annual reports and in their actions. Information systems (IS) provide organizations with the ability to change and improve business ...

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) can experience difficulties in adopting Information Systems (IS) and aligning them with their strategic development. Using the concept of bricolage, an improvisational approach that allows learning from concrete experience, we explore IS adoption and organisational change in two SME case studies. The case studies cover IS rationalisations and innovation...

This article challenges the tendency of the information systems literature to subsume IT innovation in processes of organizational change, either with the role of `̀ enabler'' of organizational objectives, or as an instrument appropriated by situated organizational actors. Using institutionalist theory, the relationship between information systems development and organizational transformation is...

Received: 22 July 2007 Revised: 29 November 2007 Accepted: 18 January 2008 Abstract We discuss the introduction of an information system where the dominant coalition claimed project success. While the key users did not use the system as intended and the project goals were not achieved, the project committee reported success to the top management board. Using a multi-methodological approach, we ...

A key impact of organizational systems and new information technologies is that they enable new organizational forms the structural features or patterns of relationships and information flows of an organization. Consequently, research on organization systems can benefit from methods that are explicitly directed toward describing and measuring organizational forms and structures. This article pr...

Information systems strategy (ISS) use is under-developed for, and under-researched in, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper reviews existing approaches to ISS for SMEs, ®nding them now out-dated and technology-focussed. The paper develops an approach that re ̄ects on the role of information as a strategic resource. It argues that ISS recommendations in small ®rms need to take a...

The impact of organizational culture on the successful implementation of information systems (IS) has been studied by some researchers. However, a close examination of the literature shows that researchers examined different attributes of organizational culture, and for the same culture attributes, researchers donot agree with the actual impact of these attributes on IS implementation. This pap...

While much is known about the general process of user participation in information systems development, its impact on matters of organisational change has not been the subject of systematic, in-depth investigation. In addition, researchers have typically adopted variance, rather than processbased approaches to the study of these related phenomena. This paper addresses these deficiencies and mak...