Digital infrastructures: The missing IS research agenda

Information Systems Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 748-759

  Tilson, David ^a   Lyytinen, Kalle ^b   Sørensen, Carsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control points; Digital infrastructure; Generativity; IS research agenda; IT artifact

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650657326     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1100.0318     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Arthur, W. B. 2009. The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves. Free Press, New York.
2. Beniger, J. R. 1986. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
3. Brynjolfsson, E., A. Saunders. 2009. Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
4. Ciborra, C. U., and Associates. 2000. From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 22.
5. Clark, D. D., J. Wroclawski, K. R. Sollins, R. Braden. 2005. Tussle in cyberspace: Defining tomorrow's Internet. EEE/ACM Trans. Networking 13(2) 462-475.
6. David, P. A. 2005. The beginnings and prospective ending of "end-to-end": An evolutionary perspective on the Internet's architecture. Discussion Paper 0502012, EconWPA, Stanford, CA. http://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpio/0502012.html.
7. Edwards, P. N., S. J. Jackson, G. C. Bowker, C. P. Knobel. 2007. Understanding infrastructure: Dynamics, tensions, and design. Report, History and Theory of Infrastructure: Lessons for New Scientific Cyberinfrastructure workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/49353.
8. Farjoun, M. 2010. Beyond dualism: Stability and change as a duality. Acad. Management Rev. 35(2) 202-225.
9. Ford, J. D., R. W. Backoff. 1988. Organizational change in and out of dualities and paradox. R. E. Q. K. S. Cameron, ed. Paradox and Transformation: Toward a Theory of Change in Organization and Management. Ballinger, Cambridge, MA, 81-121.
10. Hanseth, O., K. Lyytinen. 2010. Design theory for dynamic complexity in information infrastructures: The case of building Internet. J. Inform. Tech. 25(1) 1-19.
11. Herzhoff, J. 2009. The ICT convergence discourse in the information systems literature-A second-order observation. Proc. 17th Eur. Conf. Inform. Systems, Verona, Italy.
12. Herzhoff, J., S. Elaluf-Calderwood, C. Sørensen. 2010. Convergence, conflicts, and control points: A systems-theoretical analysis of mobile VoIP in the UK. Proc. Joint 9th Internat. Conf. Mobile Bus. 9th Global Mobility Roundtable, Athens, Greece.
13. Hughes, T. P. 1987. The evolution of large technical systems. W. E. Bijker, H. T. P., T. Pinch, eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
14. Kallinikos, J. 2006. The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.
15. Kallinikos, J., A. Aaltonen, A. Marton. 2010. A theory of digital objects. First Monday 15(6-7).
16. Lessig, L. 2001. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, 1st Vintage Books ed. Random House, New York.
17. Lyytinen, K., J. L. King. 2006. Standard making: A critical research frontier for information systems research. MIS Quart. 30(Special Issue) 405-411.
18. Malone, T., K. Yates, R. Benjamin. 1987. Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies: Effects of information technology on market structure and corporate strategies. Comm. ACM 30(6) 484-497.
19. Orlikowski, W. J., C. S. Iacono. 2001. Research commentary: Desperately seeking the "IT" in IT research-A call to theorizing the IT artifact. Inform. Systems Res. 12(2) 121-134.
20. Poole, M. S., A. H. Van de Ven. 1989. Using paradox to build management and organization theories. Acad. Management Rev. 14(4) 562-578.
21. Sambamurthy, V., A. Bharadwaj, V. Grover. 2003. Shaping agility through digital options: Reconceptualizing the role of information technology in contemporary firms. MIS Quart. 27(2) 237-263.
22. Sidorova, A., N. Evangelopoulos, J. S. Valacich, T. Ramakrishnan. 2008. Uncovering the intellectual core of the information systems discipline. MIS Quart. 32(3) 467-482.
23. Sørensen, C. 2011. Mobile IT. B. Galliers, W. Currie, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems: Critical Perspectives and New Directions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
24. Star, S. L., K. Ruhleder. 1996. Steps toward an ecology of infrastructure: Design and access for large information spaces. Inform. Systems Res. 7(1) 111-134.
25. Tilson, D. 2008. The interrelationships between technical standards and industry structures: Actor-network based case studies of the mobile wireless and television industries in the U.S. and the UK. Ph.D. thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/17205.
26. Tilson, D., K. Lyytinen, C. Sorensen. 2010. Desperately seeking the infrastructure in IS reserach: Conceptualization of "digital convergence" as coevolution of social and technical infrastructures. Proc. Hawaii Internat. Conf. System Sci, Koloa, Kauai, HI.
27. Wikipedia. 2010. Generativity. Accessed June 5, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/generativity.
28. Yates, J. 1989. Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
29. Yoo, Y. 2010. Computing in everyday life: A call for research on experiential computing. MIS Quart. 34(2) 213-231.
30. Zittrain, J. 2008. The Future of the Internet. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.