A Stakeholder Perspective to Study Enterprise-wide IS Initiatives
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2016-06
Author(s)
Research Team
ACG, IWI1
Abstract
Over the last decades, information systems (IS) have become pervasive in and inextricably inter-twined with organizations. Further, the dialectical interaction between IS and organizations is perceived as one of the major stimuli of organizational strategic moves and transformation. Notwithstanding a plethora of IS artifact-centric discussions in the extant literature, there is a need for an overarching conceptualization that goes beyond specific IS artifacts and simultane-ously accounts for a fusion between IS and organizations, which we denominated as enterprise-wide IS initiatives. To afford a paradigm shift towards an enterprise-wide investigation of such a phenomenon, this study opts for a stakeholder perspective and proposes complementary theo-retical lenses to conceive the given phenomenon as a stakeholder management endeavor. To assist analyses of this phenomenon, this study also sheds light on the necessity of its investiga-tion in multiple levels of analysis and in different periods of time. This phenomenon is hence fur-ther characterized as an emergent, ongoing endeavor. Building on both stakeholder manage-ment and emergent analyses, this study proposes a theoretical foundation to guide prospective theorizations on enterprise-wide IS initiatives and discusses its implications.
Language
English
Keywords
Enterprise-wide IS initiatives
Theoretical foundation
Organizational transformation
Stakeholder management
Emergent change
Book title
Information systems as a global gateway : 24th European Conference on Information Systems
Publisher
Boğaziçi University
Publisher place
Istanbul
Event Title
24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2016
Event Location
Istanbul, Turkey
Event Date
12.-15.06.2016
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
249020
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