The concept of organizing visions for IT innovations, introduced by Swanson and Ramiller, offers a valuable analytical lens to examine institutional dynamics underlying diffusion of complex information technology (IT) innovations at the inter-organizational level of analysis. Several aspects of the organizing vision framework, however, warrant further elaboration. In this thesis, two such aspects are addressed. First, the process of organizing vision production and evolution is elucidated in more detail and embedded in the broader context of industry meaning structures. To this end, a process-oriented model is presented delineating how the development of an organizing vision is enabled and constrained by a variety of beliefs and logics situated in the adopter and vendor industries and, conversely, how the industry meaning structures may over time become altered by the unfolding evolution of the vision. Second, specific mechanisms enabling the legitimation function of organizing visions are identified and examined. The IT legitimation taxonomy comprising 26 discursive strategies for gaining and maintaining legitimacy for IT innovations is developed. The taxonomy integrates major conceptual views on legitimacy drawn from both organization theory and IS literatures. It is further refined and illustrated through a historical case study of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) systems, an IT innovation in the field of healthcare. 142 press releases issued by vendors of CPOE software, hardware and services from 1998 to 2005 are content-analyzed and a post-hoc analysis of temporal and cross-sectional patterns in the vendors' use of legitimation strategies is carried out. The contribution of this research lies in advancing the neo-institutional perspective on IT innovation and laying a foundation for extending the analysis of IT diffusion and use beyond the organizational boundaries.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LSU/oai:etd.lsu.edu:etd-10152007-103900 |
| Date | 16 October 2007 |
| Creators | Kaganer, Evgeny |
| Contributors | Gerald Baumgartner, Sonja Wiley-Patton, Edward F. Watson, Suzanne D. Pawlowski, Rudolf A. Hirschheim |
| Publisher | LSU |
| Source Sets | Louisiana State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-10152007-103900/ |
| Rights | unrestricted, I hereby certify that, if appropriate, I have obtained and attached herein a written permission statement from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis, dissertation, or project report, allowing distribution as specified below. I certify that the version I submitted is the same as that approved by my advisory committee. I hereby grant to LSU or its agents the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible, under the conditions specified below and in appropriate University policies, my thesis, dissertation, or project report in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. I retain all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis, dissertation or project report. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis, dissertation, or project report. |
Page generated in 0.002 seconds