Early expert systems: where are they now?
MIS Quarterly
Task-technology fit and individual performance
MIS Quarterly
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on IS curricula and pedagogy
Enterprise resource planning: ERP system migrations
Communications of the ACM
Organization adoption of open systems: a “technology-push, need-pull” perspective
Information and Management
A new framework for interorganizational systesms based on the linkage of participants' roles
Information and Management
Understanding Post-Adoption Behavior in the Context of Online Services
Information Systems Research
Industry Clockspeed: Measurement and Operational Implications
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Research Report: Modeling the Incidence of Postrelease Errors in Software
Information Systems Research
Innovation and Control in Standards Architectures: The Rise and Fall of Japan's PC-98
Information Systems Research
IT Outsourcing Strategies: Universalistic, Contingency, and Configurational Explanations of Success
Information Systems Research
Electronic commerce adoption: an empirical study of small and medium US businesses
Information and Management
A Decision Model for Software Maintenance
Information Systems Research
An empirical analysis of software life spans to determine the planning horizon for new software
Information Technology and Management
A balanced thinking-feelings model of information systems continuance
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Research Note-Two Competing Perspectives on Automatic Use: A Theoretical and Empirical Comparison
Information Systems Research
Value Implications of Investments in Information Technology
Management Science
Enacting Integrated Information Technology: A Human Agency Perspective
Organization Science
Assessing the Digital Rosetta Stone Model for Long-Term Access to Digital Documents
Journal of Management Information Systems
A Virtual Integration Theory of Improved Supply-Chain Performance
Journal of Management Information Systems
Identifying Software Project Risks: An International Delphi Study
Journal of Management Information Systems
Organizational Knowledge Management: A Contingency Perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
Adopting organizational virtualization in B2B firms: An empirical study in Singapore
Information and Management
Software Engineering
Case study: Information systems project abandonment: a stakeholder analysis
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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Considerable information systems (IS) research has sought to understand the adoption, implementation, and use of information systems. In contrast, the literature offers only limited insight into end-of-life issues such as those surrounding the nature of, and basis for, organizational IS discontinuance. This situation, in conjunction with the dramatic impact that discontinuance can have on organizational performance and measures of system success, suggests a strong need for further research. Since the absence of sound theoretical frameworks can impede such research, this paper offers a theoretical model of IS discontinuance that seeks to account for organizational intention to discontinue the use of an information system. The model is based on the premise that forces contributing to the formation of discontinuance intentions are opposed by inertial tendencies in favor of the status quo. Environmental change and organizational initiative are posited to be the two broad forces driving an information system toward the end of its useful life. Organizational investments in the system, system embeddedness within the organization, and mimetic isomorphism are then seen to constrain the extent to which change forces lead to the emergence of organizational discontinuance intentions. A series of propositions are offered and related guidance is provided for those interested in pursuing further research. An exploration of how the proposed model can be generalized to other discontinuance decisions such as the decision to terminate the use of an IS standard or management practice is also offered for interested readers.