The decision-making paradigm of organizational design
Management Science
Central problems in the management of innovation
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Developing capabilities to use information strategically
MIS Quarterly
Information technology and organizations
Social Analyses of Computing: Theoretical Perspectives in Recent Empirical Research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The stage hypothesis and the s-curve: some contradictory evidence
Communications of the ACM
Designing Complex Organizations
Designing Complex Organizations
IT in legal practice: research in progress
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Information technology innovations: a classification by IT locus of impact and research approach
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This paper presents a contingency model which causally relates information technology acquisition and diffusion (IT/AD) to organization culture (heterogeneous versus homogeneous), organization learning (innovative versus adaptive), and knowledge sharing (networked versus hierarchical). The model integrates multiple and well-grounded theoretical streams of research.These three primary driving forces interact in a recursive dynamic, expressed in both rational driving forces and political driving forces. This paper focuses on the political driving forces, operationalizing them with five categories of measurement variables.A preliminary set of research propositions associated with the five categories of political driving forces are presented. Future research is suggested, addressing moderating variables, and information technology acquisition and diffusion patterns of S-curves.