The study of diffusion, adoption and implementation of inter-organisational information systems(IOIS) so far relies on theories which do not address the question of why systems continue to be usedonce adopted and implemented. We call such theories inertia theories because they imply that...

In this paper, we describe the introduction of electronic commerce into the drug distribution industry inChina. This case is especially interesting because massive institutional changes coincide with the introductionof a new technology. For these reasons, it becomes possible to study the...

Based on a critical analysis of the literature on the development and adoption of interorganisationalinformation systems (IOIS) we propose a new unit of analysis for IOISstudies, define levels of analysis based on this unit in order to organize a large set ofvariables pertinent to the study of...

Eine Routenplaner/Ticketing-Anwendung als Killerapplikation: Ausgehend von dieserÜberlegung wurde eine Befragung durchgeführt, anhand derer die kritischen Faktorender Akzeptanz eines solchen Dienstes ermittelt werden sollten.Die Visualisierung dieser Ergebnisse mittels des DART-Ansatzes soll...