A field study of the software design process for large systems
Communications of the ACM
Airline reservations systems: lessons from history
MIS Quarterly
Information technology diffusion: a review of empirical research
ICIS '92 Proceedings of the thirteenth international conference on Information systems
Information systems innovation among organizations
Management Science
Information technology innovations: a classification by IT locus of impact and research approach
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special double issue: diffusion of technological innovation
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special double issue: diffusion of technological innovation
Developing an historical tradition in MIS research
MIS Quarterly
Information Systems Development: A Systematic Approach
Information Systems Development: A Systematic Approach
Computer Systems Development: History Organization and Implementation
Computer Systems Development: History Organization and Implementation
Toward a Theory of the Adoption and Diffusion of Software Process Innovations
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 Working Conference on Diffusion, Transfer and Implementation of Information Technology
Strategic aspirations for net-enabled business
European Journal of Information Systems
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Enabling agile adoption practices through network organizations
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Agile improvement practices in software organizations
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Information system development agility as organizational learning
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Improving the quality of process reference models: A quality function deployment-based approach
Decision Support Systems
Process improvement for small firms: An evaluation of the RAPID assessment-based method
Information and Software Technology
The strategic value of IT insourcing: An IT-enabled business process perspective
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector
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This paper describes how three organizations adopted information system (IS) process innovations (ISPI) using a sample of over 200 adoptions over a period of four decades. Four distinct periods that roughly follow Friedman's and Cornford's categorization of IS development eras are analysed in terms of the rate and distribution of ISPI adoptions. These eras include early computing (1954-1965), mainframe (1965-1983), office computing (1983-1991), and distributed applications (1991-1997). We distinguish the following four types of ISPIs: base line technologies (T); tools (TO); description methods (D); and managerial innovations (M). We analyse for each era the rate of adopting different types of ISPIs, identify who made adoption decisions for those ISPI types and determine whether these ISPIs originated internally or externally. Within the three organizations, the types and rates of SPI adoptions varied significantly. These variations can be attributed to learning mechanisms, the influence of legacy platforms and differences in the boundary spanning activities. With the exception of base line technologies, project managers were the most prominent decision-maker group, suggesting a situated ISPI adoption process. In most ISPI adoptions, internal search and experiments were the main source of innovation. The variation in ISPI adoptions can thus be partly explained by development environments, the types of IS involved and attention bias.