Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Applied multivariate statistics for the social sciences
Applied multivariate statistical analysis
Applied multivariate statistical analysis
Information technology diffusion: a review of empirical research
ICIS '92 Proceedings of the thirteenth international conference on Information systems
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Management Science
Institutional Bridging: How Conceptions of IT-Enabled Change Shape the Planning Process
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
The sociology of a market analysis tool: How industry analysts sort vendors and organize markets
Information and Organization
Consultancies and capabilities in innovating with IT
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Information Systems Research
Innovating mindfully with information technology
MIS Quarterly
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
IT innovation adoption by enterprises: Knowledge discovery through text analytics
Decision Support Systems
Moving closer to the fabric of organizing visions: The case of a trade show
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
The communicative constitution of IT innovation
Information and Organization
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Making sense of new information technology (IT) and the manybuzzwords associated with it is by no means an easy task forexecutives. Yet doing so is crucial to making good innovationdecisions. This paper examines how information systems (IS)executives respond to what has been termed organizingvisions for IT, grand ideas for applying IT, the presence ofwhich is typically announced by much "buzz" and hyperbole.Developed and promulgated in the wider interorganizationalcommunity, organizing visions play a central role in driving theinnovation adoption and diffusion process. Familiar and recentexamples include electronic commerce, data warehousing, andenterprise systems.A key aspect of an organizing vision is that it has acareer. That is, even as it helps shape how IS managersthink about the future of application and practice in their field,the organizing vision undertakes its own struggle to achieveascendancy in the community. The present research explores thisstruggle, specifically probing how IS executives respond to visionsthat are in different career stages. Employing field interviews anda survey, the study identifies four dimensions of executiveresponse focusing on a vision's interpretability, plausibility,importance, and discontinuity. Taking a comparative approach, thestudy offers several grounded conjectures concerning the careerdynamics of organizing visions. For the IS executive, the findingshelp point the way to a more proactive, systematic, and criticalstance toward innovations that can place the executive in a betterposition to make informed adoption decisions.