Networked Information Technologies

1. Front Matter

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2. The Socio-Political Construction of CareSys

   • Karin Hedström

   Pages 1-18

3. Information and Communication Technologies Diffusion in Industrial Districts

   • Caterina Muzzi, Karlheinz Kautz

   Pages 19-38

4. Where is the Innovation?

   • Kristian Billeskov Bøving, Keld Bødker

   Pages 39-52

5. Co-Ordination of E-Government

   • Pål Sørgaard

   Pages 53-77

6. Translations in Network Configurations

   • Agneta Nilsson, Miria Grisot, Lars Mathiassen

   Pages 79-93

7. MIS and the Dynamics of Legitimacy in Health Care

   • Kaare Lines, Kim Viborg Andersen, Eric Montiero

   Pages 95-113

8. Role Model for the Organisational IT Diffusion Process

   • Jan Pries-Heje

   Pages 115-129

9. Should Buyers Try to Shape IT-Markets Through Non-Market (Collective) Action?

   • Kai Reimers, Mingzhi Li

   Pages 131-152

10. Exploring Application Service Provision

    • Björn Johansson

    Pages 153-166

11. A Framework for the Investigation of the Institutional Layer of IT Diffusion

    • Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou

    Pages 167-179

12. Taking Organizational Implementation Seriously: The Case of IOS Implementation

    • Jukka Heikkilä, Hannu Vahtera, Pekka Reijonen

    Pages 181-198

13. Ten Years on: Reflections on the Past and Future of 8.6

    • Tom McMaster, Karlheinz Kautz, Robert Fichman, Eleanor Wynn, Richard Veryard

    Pages 199-202

14. Networked Technologies — The Role of Networks in the Diffusion and Adoption of Software Process Improvement (SPI) Approaches

    • Karlheinz Kautz, Linda Levine, Bill Hefley, Jørn Johansen, Carsten Højmose Kristensen, Peter Axel Nielsen

    Pages 203-211

15. Open Source Software: Placebo or Panacea?

    • Jesper Holck, Danny Petterson, Kim Östrup, Brian Fitzgerald

    Pages 213-216

16. The Diffusion and Adoption of Mobile Computing

    • Kalle Lyytinen, Vladisla Fomin, Deborah Bunker

    Pages 217-219

Software systems that used to be relatively autonomous entities such as e.g. accounting systems, order-entry systems etc. are now interlinked in large networks comprising extensive information infrastructures. What earlier used to be stand-alone proprietary systems are now for the most part replaced by more or less standardized interdependent systems that form large networks of production and use. Organizations have to make decisions about what office suite to purchase? The easiest option is to continuously upgrade the existing office suite to the latest version, but the battle between WordPerfect and Microsoft Word demonstrated that the choice is not obvious. What instant messenger network to join for global communication? Preferably the one most colleagues and friends use; AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Messenger, and ICQ represent three satisfactory, but disjunctive alternatives. Similarly organizations abandon their portfolio of homegrown IT systems and replace them with a single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Several ERP alternatives exist on the market, but which is the right one for you? The argumentation and rationale behind these considerations are obviously related to the technological and social networks we are embedded in, but it is not always easy to specify how.
Networked Information Technologies: Diffusion and Adoption offers contributions from academics and practitioners who study networked information systems from a diffusion and adoption point of view. Themes related to the conceptualisation of diffusion and adoption of networked information systems are discussed along with studies of the diffusion of networked information systems in public sector institutions and private businesses.
This volume contains the edited proceedings of the IFIP Conference on The Diffusion and Adoption of Networked Information Technologies, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) WorkingGroup 8.6 and held in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2003.

• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Mobile Computing
• Open Source
• Processing
• business
• configuration
• e-government
• information processing
• information system
• innovation
• organization
• production
• service-oriented computing

• Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

  Jan Damsgaard, Helle Zinner Henriksen

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