Information systems innovation among organizations
Management Science
Professional Services Automation (PSA): Optimizing Project and Service Oriented Organizations
Professional Services Automation (PSA): Optimizing Project and Service Oriented Organizations
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Organization Science
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MIS Quarterly
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Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Consultancies and capabilities in innovating with IT
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Community learning in information technology innovation
MIS Quarterly
Information and Organization
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Information and Organization
Has open source software been institutionalized in organizations or not?
Information and Software Technology
Adoption of open source software in organizations: A socio-cognitive perspective
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Review: Recent developments in the organization goals conformance using ontology
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Why do some information technology innovations come to be adopted widely while others do not? One promising research stream has begun to investigate how institutional factors shape the diffusion of IT innovations. Here we examine how these institutional factors themselves are shaped. Specifically, we explore how interested actors termed institutional entrepreneurs develop institutional arrangements to launch an IT innovation toward widespread adoption. Undertaking a contemporary case study of a new class of enterprise software, professional services automation (PSA), we found that to launch PSA, institutional entrepreneurs sought to mobilize an organizational community by developing and recognizing leaders and facilitating members' focus on PSA. They further struggled to legitimate PSA by developing a coherent organizing vision that incorporated compelling success stories. We tie these findings together in a model that usefully shifts the focus of IT innovation research from assessing institutional effects to understanding institution-building. This new focus suggests an alternative IT diffusion theory with several practical implications.