Information systems failures—a survey and classification of the empirical literature
Oxford Surveys in Information Technology
The effects of information systems integration and organizational culture on a firm's effectiveness
Information and Management
IS investment priorities in contemporary organizations
Communications of the ACM
European Journal of Information Systems
An investigation of task-technology fit for managers in Greece and the US
European Journal of Information Systems
Applying CSCW technology to overcome traditional barriers in group interactions
Information and Management
The impact of culture on the adoption of IT: an interpretive study
Journal of Global Information Management
Challenges of EDI adoption for electronic trading in the London Insurance Market
European Journal of Information Systems
A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Cultural differences in the online behavior of consumers
Communications of the ACM
An empirical assessment of the organization of transnational information systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Exploring Perceptions of Organizational Ownership of Information and Expertise
Journal of Management Information Systems
Knowledge Management: An Organizational Capabilities Perspective
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information technology and culture: Identifying fragmentary and holistic perspectives of culture
Information and Organization
Cultural issues in developing E-Government in Malaysia
Behaviour & Information Technology
Higher education sub-cultures and open source adoption
Computers & Education
Information systems strategies for multinational companies in Arab Gulf countries
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
A techno-cultural emergence perspective on the management of techno-change
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
The key role of organizational culture in a multi-system view of technology-driven change
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Information and Organization
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Organizational culture continues to be cited as an important factor in the success or failure of information systems (IS) adoption. This is evidenced by the growing trend in the number of studies that address cultural issues in IS literature over the last several decades. Regardless of the contribution of many research studies up to now, various challenges still need to be addressed: firstly, studies continue to view culture as well integrated and shared equally among organizational members; secondly, there is a tendency for studies to downplay the dynamics of culture and how this influences IS adoption over time; and thirdly, there is an increased need to analyze culture using in-depth interpretative and longitudinal methods. This paper proposes that our understanding of IS culture can be enhanced by combining theoretical approaches in which the weakness of one approach can be complemented by the strength of another. More specifically, by combining Martin's (2002) three perspectives on culture - integration, differentiation and fragmentation and grid and group cultural theory (for instance, Douglas, 1970; Thompson et al., 1990), can offer a more penetrating account of how organizational culture influences IS adoption. This argument is demonstrated using an in-depth interpretative (retrospective) case study of a further and higher education college in the UK and its unsuccessful attempt to adopt a virtual learning environment (VLE).