2009 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2009), "2009 Awards for Excellence", Information Technology & People, Vol. 22 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/itp.2009.16122daa.002

2009 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2009 Awards for Excellence From: Information Technology & People, Volume 22, Issue 4

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Information Technology & People

"A social representations perspective on information systems implementation: rethinking the concept of "frames''''

Uri GalAarhus School of Business, Aarhus, Denmark

Nicholas BerenteDepartment of Information Systems, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advocate a "social representations" approach to the study of socio-cognitive processes during information systems (IS) implementation as an alternative to the technological frames framework.Design/methodology/approach – The paper demonstrates how social representations theory can improve research outcomes by applying it to three recent studies that employed the technological frames framework.Findings – It is found that, because the technological frames framework is overly technologically centered, temporally bounded, and individually focused, it may lead to symptomatic explanations of IS implementation. Alternatively, using the theory of social representations can offer more fundamental causal explanations of IS implementation processes.Research limitations/implications – IS researchers are encouraged to use a social representations approach to study IS implementation as the theory provides a rich vocabulary to examine the formation, change, and content of representations of IS, and their relationship to people's actions toward IS.Originality/value – The paper introduces a new theoretical perspective into the IS research discipline, which can be applied to provide better research results concerning IS implementation.Keywords Information systems, Sociology, Technology led strategywww.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/09593840810881051

This article originally appeared in Volume 21 Number 2, 2008, pp. 133-54, Information Technology & People

The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

Mobilization of software developers: the free software movement

Margaret S. ElliottWalt Scacchi

This article originally appeared in Volume 21 Number 1, 2008, Information Technology & People

Riding a hydra: women ICT professionals' perceptions of working in the Australian ICT industry

Carolyn TimmsColin LankshearNeil Anderson

This article originally appeared in Volume 22 Number 1, 2008, Information Technology & People

Inequality of what? Social exclusion in the e-society as capability deprivation

Yingqin ZhengGeoff Walsham

This article originally appeared in Volume 21 Number 3, 2008, Information Technology & People