TY - JOUR
T1 - Information technology and the transformation of industries
T2 - Three research perspectives
AU - Crowston, Kevin
AU - Myers, Michael D.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by the United States National Science Foundation, Grants IIS-9732799 and IIS-0000178. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We are very grateful to the following colleagues who commented on earlier versions of this manuscript: Mark Keil, Michael Gallivan, Magnus Mähring, Lars Mathiassen, Ephraim McLean, and Daniel Robey. We also acknowledge the assistance of Dale Thompson with coding the published papers and the suggestions of the anonymous reviewers.
PY - 2004/3
Y1 - 2004/3
N2 - It is often claimed that information technology has the potential to transform entire industries. However, we find that very little IS research has been conducted at the industry level. Moreover, the small amount of research that has been conducted on IT and industries has been based largely on just one perspective of industries. Given the scale and potential impact of the changes that are happening at an industry level, we believe a concerted effort is needed to study this phenomenon. We propose a research agenda for studying IT and industries. We suggest three research perspectives for studying IT and industries: an economic perspective, an institutional perspective, and a socio-cultural perspective. Just as IS research that addresses these aspects at the organizational level has grown in recent years and contributed to our understanding of IS, so in this paper we argue that a similar broadening, as well as more studies, are needed at the industry level of analysis. We provide an example from the real estate industry to illustrate the usefulness of the three research perspectives.
AB - It is often claimed that information technology has the potential to transform entire industries. However, we find that very little IS research has been conducted at the industry level. Moreover, the small amount of research that has been conducted on IT and industries has been based largely on just one perspective of industries. Given the scale and potential impact of the changes that are happening at an industry level, we believe a concerted effort is needed to study this phenomenon. We propose a research agenda for studying IT and industries. We suggest three research perspectives for studying IT and industries: an economic perspective, an institutional perspective, and a socio-cultural perspective. Just as IS research that addresses these aspects at the organizational level has grown in recent years and contributed to our understanding of IS, so in this paper we argue that a similar broadening, as well as more studies, are needed at the industry level of analysis. We provide an example from the real estate industry to illustrate the usefulness of the three research perspectives.
KW - Economic perspective
KW - Industry transformation
KW - Information technology
KW - Institutional perspective
KW - Real estate industry
KW - Social/cultural perspective
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jsis.2004.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jsis.2004.02.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:2442713014
SN - 0963-8687
VL - 13
SP - 5
EP - 28
JO - Journal of Strategic Information Systems
JF - Journal of Strategic Information Systems
IS - 1
ER -