Environmental and institutional models of system development: a national criminal history system
Communications of the ACM
Defining the boundaries of computing across complex organizations
Critical issues in information systems research
Design and natural science research on information technology
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on WITS '92
Qualitative research in information systems
MIS Quarterly
Enterprise resource planning: multisite ERP implementations
Communications of the ACM
Packaged software: implications of the differences from custom approaches to software development
European Journal of Information Systems
Power, politics, and MIS implementation
Communications of the ACM
Landscapes of Practice: Bricolage as a Method for Situated Design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special issue on Critical analysis of ERP systems: the macro level
Information Systems and Global Diversity
Information Systems and Global Diversity
Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations
Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations
A Paradigmatic Analysis Contrasting Information Systems Development Approaches and Methodologies
Information Systems Research
Bridging Space Over Time: Global Virtual Team Dynamics and Effectiveness
Organization Science
Information Systems Research
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Customising agile methods to software practices at Intel Shannon
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Evaluating healthcare information systems through an "enterprise" perspective
Information and Management
A Meta-Theory for Understanding Information Systems Within Sociotechnical Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Factors that affect software systems development project outcomes: A survey of research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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There is a strong tendency in the systems development literature to focus primarily on the system under development and to underemphasize the role of pre-existing information systems. Pre-existing information systems are treated largely as black boxes that serve as resources or constraints on development. A case study of a large-scale information system within a major university system in the U.S. is used to explore the role of pre-existing information systems in the development and emergence of a new system. The case study develops the argument that pre-existing information systems are active forces in systems development. Their influence occurs both through the material constraints and directions inherent in existing systems and through the experiences and learning from previous systems, which shape developer's approaches to building the new system. The study also develops a theoretical framework that integrates elements of structuration theory and actor-network theory to provide a more fine-grained analysis of how information technologies and institutional features interact in the structuring of organizational information systems. This study offers several theoretical and practical implications for IS development.