The Social Shaping of Packaged Software Selection

Howcroft, Debra; Light, Ben

doi:10.17705/1jais.00224

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“…We therefore propose that future research adopt a multistakeholder perspective and evaluate differences in stakeholder perceptions. This suggestion is consistent with recent calls for research on CC, ITO, and packaged software acquisition Howcroft and Light, 2010;Bidwell, 2012). Table 5 summarizes our discussion and proposes future research directions.…”

Section: Implications For Researchsupporting

confidence: 88%

Determinant Factors of Cloud-Sourcing Decisions: Reflecting on the IT Outsourcing Literature in the Era of Cloud Computing

Schneider

Sunyaev

2016

Journal of Information Technology

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Cloud computing (CC) is an emerging form of IT outsourcing (ITO) that requires organizations to adjust their sourcing processes. Although ITO researchers have established an extensive knowledge base on the determinant factors that drive sourcing decisions from various theoretical perspectives, the majority of research on cloud-sourcing decisions focuses on technological aspects. We reviewed the CC and ITO literature and systematically coded the determinant factors that influence sourcing decisions. We show that most determinant factors of sourcing decisions in the ITO context remain valid for the CC context. However, the findings for some factors (i.e., asset specificity, client firm IT capabilities, client firm size, institutional influences, and uncertainty) are inconclusive for the CC and ITO contexts. We discuss how the peculiarities of CC can explain these inconclusive findings. Our results indicate that CC researchers should draw from research on ITO decision making but re-examine ITO concepts in the light of the peculiarities of CC, such as the differences between software and infrastructure services, the self-service procurement of cloud services, or the evolving role of IT departments. By summarizing determinant factors of cloud-sourcing decisions for consideration in future research, we contribute to the development of endogenous theories in the IS domain.

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confidence: 88%

Determinant Factors of Cloud-Sourcing Decisions: Reflecting on the IT Outsourcing Literature in the Era of Cloud Computing

Schneider

Sunyaev

2016

Journal of Information Technology

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151

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“…The study also confirms the appropriateness of investigating cognitive frames to understand how the beliefs and scripts of organizational actors facilitate or hinder the enactment of organizational actions for the achievement of organizational goals (Argyris & Schon, ; Howcroft & Light, ). It revealed that academic librarians' professional frames, beliefs, and scripts for library activities are critical factors in IR innovation and implementation initiatives.…”

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confidence: 71%

Understanding the influence of librarians cognitive frames on institutional repository innovation and implementation

Utulu

Ngwenyama

2019

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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An institutional repository (IR) is an information system (IS) that has the potential to promote open access to scientific knowledge and the visibility and reputation of scholars. The small number of universities in developing countries that have successfully innovated and implemented an IR hampers the actualization of these benefits. This situation calls for effort toward understanding the factors responsible. We used the snowball sampling technique to select 45 academic librarians from three university libraries in Nigeria that were involved in IR innovation. Data were collected through in‐depth interviews and participatory observation for 15 months. Thematic data analyses show that the relationships between academic librarians' IR innovation cognitive frames (belief, scripts, and resistance routines) influence IR innovation outcomes. The result is a research model that explicates how the relationships between academic librarians' cognitive frames and internal functioning of libraries constitute IR innovation barriers to IR innovation and implementation.

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“…The SST approach has been shown to be useful in making sense a wide range of artefacts. Previous studies for instance have examined refrigerators, missile guidance systems, electric lighting, the bicycle, the telephone and videotext, radio, telephony, and electric media and computing and organisational technologies (see (MacKenzie and Wajcman 1985, Bijker 1987, Bijker and Law 1994, Bijker 1995, Abbate 1999, Mackenzie and Wajcman 1999, Oudshoorn and Pinch 2005, Pinch 2005, Light and Wagner 2006, Boczkowski and Lievrouw 2008, Howcroft and Light 2010, Lauer 2012). It has been suggested that historians and sociologists of technology have focused on technology as their major topic of analysis, whereas those who do cultural and media studies have primarily attended to users and consumers Pinch 2005, Flanagin et al 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%