The information system as a competitive weapon
Communications of the ACM - Special section on management of information systems
IBM's early computers
Information systems for sustainable competitive advantage
Information and Management
Airline reservations systems: lessons from history
MIS Quarterly
Information technology's strategic impact on the American Air travel industry
Information and Management
A computer perspective: background to the computer age (new ed.)
A computer perspective: background to the computer age (new ed.)
Systems development risks in strategic information systems
Information and Software Technology - Information and software economics
Rattling SABRE—new ways to compete on information
Harvard Business Review
Computer: a history of the information machine
Computer: a history of the information machine
Strategic Information Systems
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers.
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers.
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann
The Computer from Pascal to Von Neumann
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology
Corporate Information Systems Management: Text and Cases
Corporate Information Systems Management: Text and Cases
The Development of the ERMA Banking System: Lessons from History
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
History of programming languages I
History of programming languages I
ICIS '98 Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems
How organizations adopt information system process innovations: a longitudinal analysis
European Journal of Information Systems
Emerging business models for mobile brokerage services
Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Journal of Management Information Systems
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Information and Organization
The strategic value of SOA: a comparative case study in the banking sector
International Journal of Information Technology and Management
Forty years of the corporate information technology function at Texaco Inc. - A history
Information and Organization
The Challenge of Relating IS Research to Practice
Information Resources Management Journal
Knowledge management in LLiSA ICT4D projects
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
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MIS as a discipline has not yet developed a tradition of historical research. Historical analyses broaden our understanding of the processes by which information technology is introduced into organizations and of the forces that shape its use. Paramount among these processes are those Schumpeter called "creative destruction." These are events that change entire organizations and industries. The end product of a Schumpeterian process is called a "dominant design," a new configuration of an organization's technology, strategy, and structure. A dominant design is manifested in several ways: a new organizational infrastructure, new functionality, new products, new services, new production functions, or new cost structures. By changing the basis of competition in the industry, a firm that institutes a dominant design secures an initial competitive edge. Although the understanding of these processes is central to the concerns of many researchers and practitioners in the field, the information systems research literature contains very few examples of historical analyses of this type. A contingency framework is developed for conducting a class of information technology-based historical studies that focuses on innovation and competition within an industry.