This paper reports from fieldwork exploring a Web-based information system in a
multinational pharmaceutical company. The discussion revolves around research methods …

This paper reconsiders the issue of access to a field of study as a problem that fieldworkers
have to solve they start data generation. Access problems, instead of being seen as a …

In this paper we use a case study of a project to create a Web 2.0-based, Virtual Research
Environment (VRE) for researchers to share digital resources in order to reflect on the …

This study pertains to the field of research on information systems development. What is
information systems development or ISD? In research on the topic, ISD is described as the …

Virtual Research Environments examines making Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) usable by researchers working to solve “grand challenge problems in …

Purpose–This paper aims to consider the potential use of Web 2.0 tools as the basis for the
creation of a virtual research environment. Specific features of the Web 2.0 world are …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to discuss how new technologies for supporting scientific
research will possibly influence the librarians' work. Design/methodology/approach–The …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of the emergence of
virtual research environments (VREs) and related e‐research tools for scholarly work and …

This paper adopts a communities of practice approach to examine how the introduction of a
groupware application in a UK pharmaceuticals company enabled and constrained …

Practice-based perspectives have established the situated nature of how technology is
appropriated, enacted, and improvised in organisations. Empirical studies demonstrate how …