Packaged Software Configuration through the Lens of Social Construction of Technology

Author

Mousavidin, E. ; Silva, Leandro

Author_Institution

C.T. Bauer Coll. of Bus. Dept. of Decision & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This research concerns the configuration of packaged software. Specifically, it concentrates on the technical, organizational and social aspects of post-purchase configuration. Accordingly, adoption of a social construction of technology (SCOT) approach to study configuration process of packaged software is proposed. In doing so configurable packaged software has been defined based on the previous literature. After a review of the socio-technical approach of SCOT, this theoretical lens has been defined and its use in the context of IS has been discussed. The potential insights from such a study are argued to benefit both use and development of packaged software.

Keywords

configuration management; information systems; software packages; organizational aspect; packaged software configuration; post-purchase configuration; social construction of technology; socio-technical aspect; Application software; Educational institutions; Enterprise resource planning; Hardware; Information systems; Lenses; Packaging; Programming; Software packages; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2009. HICSS '09. 42nd Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Big Island, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3450-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2009.340

Filename

4755800