Paper Info
Title
Rationalizing, Probing, Understanding: the Evolution of the Inter-Organizational Systems Adoption Field
Abstract
Previous surveys of the Inter-Organizational Systems (IOS) adoption field have developed taxonomic schemes to improve general understanding of the field. This paper instead studies the historical development of the field and describes its evolution in a stage model. In therationalizing stage researchers tried to discover and communicate reasons for some apparently successful adoptions of IOS. However it soon became clear that IOS adoption was relatively limited and in the probing stage the focus changed to investigating the failure of the promised seamless integration. No unified coherent theoretical account emerged from these studies, so in the understanding stage researchers widened the focus of study to try to develop a richer account of the many complex influences on IOS adoption. The three stages are associated with different objectives, assumptions, theoretical backgrounds and research approaches.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2003
HICSS
adoption,therationalizing stage researcher,adoption field,inter-organizational systems ios,inter-organizational systems adoption field,general understanding,ios adoption,successful adoption,theoretical background,richer account,understanding stage researcher,unified coherent theoretical account,research approach and theory application.,stage model,review
Field
DocType
ISBN
Computer science,Rationalization (psychology),Knowledge management,Management science
Conference
0-7695-1874-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.56
35
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Somasundaram Ramanathan1162.11
Jeremy Rose2497.01