Paper Info
Title
Studying Organizational Computing Infrastructures: Multi-method Approaches
Abstract
This paper provides guidelines for developing multi-method research approaches, provides several examples of their use, and discusses experiences with conducting a multi-method study of one organization's computing infrastructure changes. The focus on organizationa l computing infrastructures is due to the contemporary belief that these are increasingly critical to organizational success. However, understanding the value of an organization's computing infrastructure is difficult. This is because of their uniqueness, pervasiveness, context-driven nature, temporality, the constant changes in underlying technologies and the variety of their effects at multiple levels in the organization. These difficulties are especially pronounced in organizations with distributed computing environments because the dispersion of computing accentuates these effects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1007/978-0-387-35505-4_14
Organizational and Social Perspectives on IT
Keywords
Field
DocType
organizational informatics,computing infrastructure,organizational change,multi-method research,implementation,studying organizational computing infrastructures,multi-method approaches,fieldwork,erp,distributed computing environment
Computer science,Organizational computing,Knowledge management,Organizational learning,Business informatics,Temporality
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7923-7867-9
5
0.56
References 
Authors
23
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steve Sawyer1747.91