Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages are said to enable integration when the standard inscription is adhered to through software configuration. A social shaping perspective expands conceptualisations of ERP packages, enabling a view of them as configurational technologies. Thus, ERP...

In this paper, we focus on how firms engaged in enterprise systems (ES) implementations absorb knowledge from consultant companies. We take a practice-based view of absorptive capacity (AC) and focus on how prior-related knowledge - a necessary condition to absorb new external knowledge - is...

In this research in progress we present the initial stage of a large ethnographic study at a healthcare network in the US. Our goal is to understand how healthcare organizations in the US use algorithms to improve efficiency (cost saving) and effectiveness (quality) of healthcare. Our...

We focus on the core institution of the capital market and the institutional work of professional service firms that provide ratings on corporate-issuers, initially in a bid to maintain this institution, which suffered when those involved relied solely on information from the issuers themselves....

Most studies on AC (absorptive capacity) are based on assumptions that are characteristic of viewing knowledge from an epistemology of possession (knowledge is possessed by individuals and is transferable). However, the literature on managing knowledge (or better knowledge work) acknowledges...

In this paper we focus on the development of virtual communities of practice (V-CoP) in large-scale projects. We identify a literature gap in the lack of research on V-CoP in the project management literature and we conduct a study of a large-scale ES (Enterprise System) implementation to...

The paper arises from research that examined a healthcare coordination improvement initiative that was focused on increasing knowledge sharing among a network of healthcare workers involved in the care of children with complex medical needs. Part of this initiative involved a summary medical...