A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
A qualitative study of the occupational subculture of information systems employees in organizations
Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Careers, culture, and ethics in a networked environment
Who is "the IT workforce"?: challenges facing policy makers, educators, management, and research
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research
An effort towards identifying occupational culture among information systems professionals
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on computer personnel research: Forty four years of computer personnel research: achievements, challenges & the future
Managing culture creep: Toward a strategic model of user IT culture
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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With a backdrop of economic turmoil in recent history composed of a severe recession and slow recovery, there is timely motivation to explain the important role that collective memory plays in occupational culture. Based on the lens of cultural sociology and Halbwach's theory of collective memory, the findings uncover the heroes and origin stories that form the collective memory of the IT occupation in order to answer the research question "What are the important elements of collective memory in IT occupational culture?" The findings include elements of economic downturns, layoffs, outsourcing, job-hopping, 9/11, Silicon Valley, and increased regulation, as well as common heroes and origins. A hermeneutic interpretation is offered to further explain the importance of the results for both theory and practice.