Showing papers in "Information and Organization in 2006"

TL;DR: It is proposed that a critical realist ontology allows for one re-interpretation of the activity of science as implicitly predicated upon natural and social realism as well as the concepts of structures and generative mechanisms.

TL;DR: This study illustrates how a best practice ERP system was actually created through a socio-political process involving negotiations amongst a small group of interests in a particular context, and how later such practices were locally refuted and amended, despite the original product continuing to be sold by the software vendor.

TL;DR: It is argued that IT appears homogeneous for it attracts and generates heterogeneous uses, which enables IT and SAP to travel across organisations, and is labelled ‘heteromogeneous’.

TL;DR: An interpretive case study on the introduction of a telemedicine system in the healthcare region of Crete, Greece focuses on the relationship between power relationships and organizational change, and the role of different artifacts in negotiations of power, as well as in processes of community formation.

TL;DR: This paper illustrates how the Rational Choice Perspective and Situational Crime Prevention can be applied to the IS domain, thereby offering a theoretical basis by which to analyse the offender/context relationship during perpetration.

TL;DR: It is argued that emotions are always implicated in their lived experiences, crucially influencing how the authors come to their beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong.

TL;DR: This paper aims to explore the contradictions of CRM systems and their use in call centres and in doing so contribute to the literature on critical information systems research by invoking a critical perspective.

TL;DR: A paradoxical framework that integrates extant understandings of paradox from philosophy and organization studies is built that includes the discussion of the nature of paradox, its usefulness for understanding KM, its management and finally an alternative, paradoxical view of KM.

TL;DR: The Texaco IT story is a typical account of the experiences of many large corporate IT organizations, but the unit was a success by the measures of the profession, but failed in the eyes of top management and business units.

TL;DR: The potential value of using rhetorical formulations of performance aims as a means to engender useful understanding on the properties of IT use or organizational design in emergent contexts is illustrated.

TL;DR: The findings of this longitudinal field study suggest that an IT platform can serve as both reification and propagation media for experimentation with new work practices, and the intensity of collective learning in the process of institutionalizing new work practice can be reduced.