Information Technology & People: Volume 20 Issue 2

Enterprise architectures: enablers of business strategy and IS/IT alignment in government

Shirley Gregor, Dennis Hart, Nigel Martin

Drawing on established alignment and architectural theory, this paper seeks to present the argument that an organisation's enterprise architecture can enable the alignment…

Implementing an integrated system in a socially dis‐integrated enterprise: A critical view of ERP enabled integration

Amany R. Elbanna

Organisational integration has been presented as a key imminent outcome of implementing ERP systems. This study aims to examine critically this notion of integration by…

Internet and the lifeworld: updating Schutz's theory of mutual knowledge

Shanyang Zhao

The paper seeks to understand the formation of mutual knowledge in the online world using the phenomenological framework that Alfred Schutz and his associates constructed…

Issues and recommendations in evaluating and managing the benefits of public sector IS/IT outsourcing

Chad Lin, Graham Pervan, Donald McDermid

The main purpose of this paper is threefold: to understand public‐sector outsourcing in Australia; to examine the linkage between IS/IT outsourcing and the use of…

The introduction of information technology in the commercial banking sector of developing countries: voices from Sudan

Mohamed Osman Shereif Mahdi, Patrick Dawson

This article sets out to draw on new empirical research to illustrate how the process of technological change is shaped by a combination of contextual elements that relate…

Thinking “Informatically”: A New Understanding of Information Communication, and Technology

Chrisanthi Avgerou