Location
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
Event Website
http://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Start Date
1-3-2018
End Date
1-6-2018
Description
Any strategic Information System (IS) change process is at risk of a failure because of its inability to evolve as rapidly as the business environment. In this Grounded Theory study, aspects of socio-cognitive inertia arose in a 15-year customer-vendor relationship involving excessive optimism and trust in decision-making about technological options, knowledge sharing, and development practices. The pre-existing collaboration model was ultimately not supportive of the targeted strategic IS change. As a result, pressures to change the mode of operating emerged at the critical phase of initial rollout. This paper contributes to the IS change literature by presenting and theorizing an action-structure paradox identified during this study of strategic IS change.
Action-Structure Paradox in a Strategic Information System Change Process
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
Any strategic Information System (IS) change process is at risk of a failure because of its inability to evolve as rapidly as the business environment. In this Grounded Theory study, aspects of socio-cognitive inertia arose in a 15-year customer-vendor relationship involving excessive optimism and trust in decision-making about technological options, knowledge sharing, and development practices. The pre-existing collaboration model was ultimately not supportive of the targeted strategic IS change. As a result, pressures to change the mode of operating emerged at the critical phase of initial rollout. This paper contributes to the IS change literature by presenting and theorizing an action-structure paradox identified during this study of strategic IS change.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-51/os/theory_and_is/4