Lin, Angela, Cornford, Tony 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-1498 and Foster, Jonathan
(2003)
Implementing and sustaining infrastructures: a question of when not what.
In: UKAIS, 2003-04-09 - 2003-04-11, Warwick, United Kingdom, GBR.
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Abstract
This paper considers the implementation of IT infrastructures from the perspective of their ongoing performance. Based on a case study of the implementation of Lotus Notes in a manufacturing company in the UK, it depicts this performance as the interaction between issues and concerns emerging from use the of Lotus Notes and the hosting organization. Drawing on Star and Ruhleder (1996) three levels of analysis are identified: resources, contextual effects, and long-standing disputes or controversies, and the interactions between them are explored. The paper concludes with an account of infrastructures and their implementation that emphasises the need for dynamic models that place emphasis on dealing with issues that emerge during an extended implementation process and as an infrastructure becomes progressively embedded into the organizational context.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~bsral/ukais/Home.php |
| Additional Information: | © 2003 The authors |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Feb 2010 12:27 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 14:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/27119 |
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