Conceptualizing Information Systems Development as an Organizational Routine

IF 2.8 4区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Gregory Vial, S. Rivard
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Abstract

Research acknowledges that information systems development (ISD) teams experiment with, overlook, or adapt the methods that they purportedly use. Given this, one stream of research adopts a perspective focused on prescriptions based on the idea of a method. Another stream of research adopts a perspective anchored in the view that human agency plays a critical role in the unfolding of ISD projects. We suggest that our understanding of ISD can be enriched by mobilizing both perspectives. Specifically, we propose a conceptualization of ISD as an organizational routine based on the ontology developed by Feldman and Pentland. We build on the elements of this ontology- (1) the idea of a routine (the ostensive aspect) and (2) its enactment (the performative aspect) as the two mutually constitutive aspects of organizational routines; and (3) the role of artifacts as mediators of the relationship between actors and the ostensive and performative aspects of organizational routines - to develop theoretical arguments explaining the benefits of applying this ontology to the ISD phenomenon. Extending the contextual boundaries of Feldman and Pentland's ontology, we propose research avenues that have the potential to contribute to our understanding of this core phenomenon of the IS discipline.
将信息系统开发概念化为组织常规
研究承认,信息系统开发(ISD)团队尝试、忽略或调整他们声称使用的方法。鉴于此,一种研究流派采用了一种基于方法概念的处方观点。另一种研究采用了一种观点,即人的能动性在ISD项目的展开中起着关键作用。我们建议通过调动这两种观点来丰富我们对ISD的理解。具体来说,我们在Feldman和Pentland提出的本体的基础上提出了ISD作为组织常规的概念。我们建立在这个本体论的元素上——(1)常规的观念(实指方面)和(2)常规的制定(执行方面)作为组织常规的两个相互构成的方面;(3)工件作为参与者与组织常规的显性和表演性方面之间关系的中介的作用——发展理论论证,解释将该本体应用于ISD现象的好处。扩展费尔德曼和彭特兰本体论的上下文边界,我们提出的研究途径有可能有助于我们理解信息系统学科的这一核心现象。
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Data Base for Advances in Information Systems
Data Base for Advances in Information Systems INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
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