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Process models in information systems
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 international conference on Information systems and qualitative research
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Theories of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet
Theories of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology
Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Developing web services choreography standards: the case of REST vs. SOAP
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and Future Possibilities
ACM Turing award lectures
The problem of distributed intellectual property bundles: a transaction cost perspective
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Electronic commerce
Adapting standards to facilitate the transition from situational model to reference model
BPM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Business process management
With or without you: The countervailing forces and effects of process standardization
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Editor's comments: perspectives on time
MIS Quarterly
Adoption and Diffusion of Business Practice Innovations: An Evolutionary Analysis
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Influences on standards adoption in de facto standardization
Information Technology and Management - Special issue on New Theories and Methods for Technology Adoption Research
A characteristics framework for Semantic Information Systems Standards
Information Systems and e-Business Management
International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research
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In order to create Internet standards, people and ideas move across many institutions. By drawing upon the new institutionalism and on organizational ecology, we develop an ecological approach to studying this movement. The approach examines the birth and death of standards bodies and the ideas they cultivate. We apply the approach to the history of Web services choreography standards, in which over 500 participants traversed nine institutions during a 12-year period. We explain critical aspects of this history by analyzing patterns of movement of standardization ideas. We show that standard-making institutions refuse to legitimate standards by utilizing bylaws which reflect the values of the institution; these values reflect the design legacy of the Internet. We formulate conjectures about the dynamics of the birth and death of working groups inside larger institutions that form a population ecology. We discuss plausible explanations for why specific Internet standard-making efforts do not resolve quickly. The theoretical implication of the study is that an ecological approach will apply well to inventions that have been incubated, such as the Internet. The pragmatic implication is that changes to institutional Internet governance, particularly to the bylaws of standards bodies, can have drastic and unintended effects that will reshape the standard-making ecology.