Information technology (IT) extensively regulates organizational processes in contemporary organizations by allowing or preventing behaviors —either to the benefit or detriment of the organization. Yet regulatory processes that create, maintain, and enforce rules in IT-rich contexts have not...

SUMMARY We analyze the effect of buyer, contract, and vendor characteristics on abnormal stock returns among firms that have announced large scale Information Technology (IT) and Business Process outsourcing (BPO) contracts. We draw upon a comprehensive dataset on outsourcing announcements,...

This paper categorizes the multiple-faced roles of the government in technology standardization in the catching-up contexts. It presents a case that China has developed a third generation (3G) of mobile system, TD-SCDMA, and deployed it in the Chinese market. The authors attribute the success of...

This paper examines the telecommunications reform in China from a macro perspective. It describes the progress of Chinese telecommunications reform, and investigates macro level changes that have affected the transformation process. Two key issues are addressed: reform in the regulatory regime,...

In this paper we examine the design of the first wireless systems as infrastructure making. An infrastructure is fundamentally a relational concept. Accordingly, we shall analyze how relationships between entrepreneurs, system builders and regulators were organized so that some early wireless...

The transition of the wireless industry from second generation (2G) to third generation (3G) is more than a simple technology upgrade. The industry's service profile will move far beyond telephony and services will converge with the computing and content sectors. This will bring many more...

Information systems have traditionally been conceived as technical artefacts which may (or may not) have social and behavioural implications. They act as mechanisms that reinforce organizational control. In this article we argue that such a conception is too limited: information systems possess...

Organizational research argues that under relational forms of governance a high degree of both information pooling and physical interaction are necessary for inter-organizational knowledge creation. Yet, recent studies of information and communication technologies (ICTs) suggest that both...