More than 50 years ago, information technology (IT) began to change society, the economy,
and industries worldwide. This change has included waves of technological disruption that …

Up until the mid-1990s, for a significant proportion of mainstream IS scholars, particularly
those in North America and Asia, research meant quantitative research, and studies not …

Although digital transformation offers a number of opportunities for today's organizations,
information systems scholars and practitioners struggle to grasp what digital transformation …

The sociotechnical perspective is often seen as one of the foundational viewpoints—or an"
axis of cohesion"—for the Information Systems (IS) discipline, contributing to both its …

Grounded theory methodology (GTM), with its espoused goal of theory development of novel
phenomena, has found broad application in Information Systems (IS) research. To …

Abstract Information systems success and failure are among the most prominent streams in
IS research. Explanations of why some IS fulfill their expectations, whereas others fail, are …

Agility, which refers to a dynamic capability within firms to identify and effectively respond to
threats and opportunities with speed, is considered as a main business imperative in …

This paper compares two alternative theoretical foundations upon which the study of
sociomateriality can be built: agential realism and critical realism. It begins by providing a …

Building on recent developments in mixed methods, we discuss the methodological
implications of critical realism and explore how these can guide dynamic mixed-methods …

Convincing arguments for using critical realism as an underpinning for theories of IT-
associated organizational change have appeared in the Information Systems literature. A …