Enterprise Information Systems as Objects and Carriers of Institutional Forces: The New Iron Cage?

By Sanjay Gosain. Journal of the AIS, 2004

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Assimilation of enterprise systems: the effect of institutional pressures and the mediating role of top management (2007, background): “Gosain (2004) theorizes how”
Computing (2021, methodology): “The extent of the study area covered about 4 × 4 blocks that spanned a recently developed zone (new hotels), original commercial build ings (around 100 years old), and a suburban area that was largely developed by the mid-20th century.”
Strategizing information systems-enabled organizational transformation: A transdisciplinary review and new directions (2012, background): “Gosain (2004), Lapointe and Rivard (2007), Lyytinen and Newman (2008) and many others (cf. Section 2.1) would argue to the contrary.”
Data-driven supply chains, manufacturing capability and customer satisfaction (2017, methodology): “…the following hypothesis is stated: H1a: DDSC have a significant positive effect on flexibility With regard to delivery, the literature consistently finds that information exchange is associated with notable improvement in speed and customer service (e.g. Ahmad and Schroeder 2001; Gosain 2004).”
Information Technology Governance in Information Technology Investment Decision Processes: The Impact of Investment Characteristics, External Environment, and Internal Context (2008, background): “Brown 1997 Gosain 2004 Swanson 1997 Swanson and Ramiller 2004 Centralization The extent to which decision rights are concentrated at the top.”
Technological Embeddedness and Organizational Change (2007, background): “These include studies based on structuration theory (Orlikowski 1992, Orlikowski and Robey 1991), institutional theory (Avgerou 2000, Gosain 2004), and actor network theory (ANT) (Latour 1996, Walsham 1997).”
Positioning the institutional perspective in information systems research (2009, methodology): “In similar fashion, Gosain (2004) proposes that organizations from highly regulated domains will tend to have enterprise information systems (EIS) with similar mandated configurations, and that the tendency will be stronger when they are dependent upon organizations that expect compliance for…”