TY - JOUR
T1 - Redefining access
T2 - Uses and roles of information and communication technologies in the US residential real estate industry from 1995 to 2005
AU - Sawyer, Steve
AU - Wigand, Rolf T.
AU - Crowston, Kevin
N1 - Funding Information:
The support for this research has been provided in part by the National Science Foundation, Grants IIS 9732799 and 0000178, and the National Association of Realtors. We thank the interview participants and survey respondents for their time, insights and willingness to participate. Particular thanks to Marcel Allbritton, Bryanne Corderio, Jesse Hedge, and Sharoda Paul for helping us with data collection and analysis.
Funding Information:
Dr. Rolf T Wigand is the Maulden-Entergy Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Science and Management at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the immediate past director of the Center for Digital Commerce and the Graduate Program in Information Management at Syracuse University. Wigand researches and consults in information management, electronic commerce and markets, IS standards and the strategic deployment of information and communication technology. His research interests lie at the intersection of information and communication business issues, the role of newer information technologies and their strategic alignment within business and industry. Wigand has taught on the faculty of Syracuse University, Arizona State University, Michigan State University, Universidad Iber-oamericana, Mexico City, and the University of Munich. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the German National Science Foundation (DFG), the Volkswagen Foundation, the International Social Science Council, Rome Laboratory, and other funding agencies. He is an editorial board and review member of almost 30 academic and professional journals, book series, and yearbooks. Wigand is the author of five books and over 110 articles, book chapters, and monographs.
Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - We discuss three industry-level changes in the US residential real estate industry due, in part, to the take up and uses of information and communication technologies (ICT): (1) changes in the processes of transacting residential real estate, (2) changing roles for information, and (3) changing nature of intermediation, with the real estate transaction as more complex than the seller-agent-buyer simplification would suggest. We speculate that these changes are currently indeterminate due to ongoing confusion among the impacts of first and second-level effects, the roles of ICT in redefining access to data, and the importance of localized, social structures of real estate markets. To develop these findings, we take an institutional perspective and draw on multiple data collection methods. This provides us a means to highlight the value of an institutional perspective for studying industrial-level change.
AB - We discuss three industry-level changes in the US residential real estate industry due, in part, to the take up and uses of information and communication technologies (ICT): (1) changes in the processes of transacting residential real estate, (2) changing roles for information, and (3) changing nature of intermediation, with the real estate transaction as more complex than the seller-agent-buyer simplification would suggest. We speculate that these changes are currently indeterminate due to ongoing confusion among the impacts of first and second-level effects, the roles of ICT in redefining access to data, and the importance of localized, social structures of real estate markets. To develop these findings, we take an institutional perspective and draw on multiple data collection methods. This provides us a means to highlight the value of an institutional perspective for studying industrial-level change.
KW - Information and communications technologies
KW - Institutional theory
KW - Isomorphism
KW - Real estate
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U2 - 10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000049
DO - 10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000049
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:28444450492
SN - 0268-3962
VL - 20
SP - 213
EP - 223
JO - Journal of Information Technology
JF - Journal of Information Technology
IS - 4
ER -