Networked Information Technologies: Diffusion and Adoption

Damsgaard J., Henriksen H.Z.1402078625

Software systems that used to be relatively autonomous entities such as e.g. accounting systems, order-entry systems etc. are now interlinked in large networks comprising extensive information infrastructures. What earlier used to be stand-alone proprietary systems are now for the most part replaced by more or less standardized interdependent systems that form large networks of production and use. Organizations have to make decisions about what office suite to purchase? The easiest option is to continuously upgrade the existing office suite to the latest version, but the battle between WordPerfect and Microsoft Word demonstrated that the choice is not obvious. What instant messenger network to join for global communication? Preferably the one most colleagues and friends use; AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Messenger, and ICQ represent three satisfactory, but disjunctive alternatives. Similarly organizations abandon their portfolio of homegrown IT systems and replace them with a single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Several ERP alternatives exist on the market, but which is the right one for you? The argumentation and rationale behind these considerations are obviously related to the technological and social networks we are embedded in, but it is not always easy to specify how.Networked Information Technologies: Diffusion and Adoption offers contributions from academics and practitioners who study networked information systems from a diffusion and adoption point of view. Themes related to the conceptualisation of diffusion and adoption of networked information systems are discussed along with studies of the diffusion of networked information systems in public sector institutions and private businesses.This volume contains the edited proceedings of the IFIP Conference on The Diffusion and Adoption of Networked Information Technologies, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.6 and held in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2003.

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Table of contents :
Team DDU……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
Editors’s preface……Page 8
The Socio-political Construction of CareSys……Page 14
Information and Communication Technologies Diffusion in Industrial Districts……Page 32
Where is the Innovation?……Page 52
Co-ordination of E-government……Page 66
Translations in Network Configurations……Page 92
MIS and the Dynamics of Legitimacy in Health Care……Page 108
Role Model for the Organisational IT Diffusion Process……Page 128
Should Buyers Try to Shape IT-markets through Non-market (Collective) Action?……Page 144
Exploring Application Service Provision……Page 166
A Framework for the Investigation of the Institutional Layer of IT Diffusion……Page 180
Taking Organizational Implementation Seriously: The Case of IOS Implementation……Page 194
Ten Years on: Reflections on the Past and Future of 8.6……Page 212
Networked Technologies – The Role of Networks in the Diffusion and Adoption of Software Process Improvement (SPI) Approaches……Page 216
Open Source Software: Placebo or Panacea?……Page 226
The Diffusion and Adoption of Mobile Computing……Page 230