This paper identifies challenges facing the development of contextual theory in Information
Systems research. The IS literature is examined to identify the variation of approaches …

Our knowledge of how users reinvent information technologies (IT) in ways that depart from
their intended purposes to achieve new goals is relatively limited. Drawing on a human …

We reviewed papers in core IS outlets that defined the term workaround or presented an
example of a workaround. In the analysis, we used Ogden and Richard's triangle of …

ICT4D initiatives hold the potential to transform health service delivery in settings of poverty,
yet, in practice, they face many of the same implementation complexities and coordination …

Technology standardization unfolds as a dialectic process marked by paradoxical tensions.
However, standardization research has yet to provide a dialectic analysis of how tensions …

In the course of the last century or two, large-scale technical structures such as water and
sewer systems, railways, electrical telegraph systems, administrative archives, electrical …

Sociomateriality is gaining momentum and is by now characterized as a research stream in
the information system field. Although some definitions emerged, there is still uncertainty …

Cloud computing technology presents a case of centralised digital infrastructure that
requires adherence to standards and planned approach for its adoption and …

In this paper, we give a narrative account of the building and sustaining of a multi-
organization practice-based research community (IndustryConnect). We begin with an …

Recent years have witnessed the rapid emergence of digital technology as not just an
enabler, but indeed a material basis for platform development. However, extant platform …