IS personnel: do they form an occupational community?
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
Identifying organizational culture clash in MIS implementation: When is it worth the effort?
Information and Management
The inertial impact of culture on IT implementation
Information and Management
Power over users: its exercise by system professionals
Communications of the ACM
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
The Impact of Technology on Relationships within Organizations
Information Technology and Management
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
RIP - beliefs about IT culture: exploring national and gender differences
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR conference on Computer personnel research: The global information technology workforce
Information technology and the autonomy—control duality: toward a theory
Information Technology and Management
Information technology and culture: Identifying fragmentary and holistic perspectives of culture
Information and Organization
Validating instruments in MIS research
MIS Quarterly
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Culture in information systems (IS) research has been an important area of study for over twenty-five years but has focused on two levels of analysis: national and organizational. However, research at the level of IT occupational culture has been minimal. Shared values are the core element of any cultural group and the IS literature has repeatedly called for measurable dimensions of IT culture. This study is an exploratory positivist investigation into scale creation and proposes a set of six value dimensions specific to the context of IT occupational culture based on a review of the relevant IS literature culture as well as interviews with IT professionals. These six dimensions are: Structure of Power, Control, Open Communication, Risk, Reverence for Knowledge, and Enjoyment (abbreviated as SCORRE). A preliminary instrument was prepared and tested with an empirical study. The instrument was found to have both high reliability and construct validity and is ready for further use in ongoing research. There was further evidence that SCORRE represents many core values that form the foundation of IT occupational culture.