It is now being assumed — without strong feelings or controversy — that thousands of intelligent objects will be connected to the Internet in the near future. These prospects might gladden hearts or scare weaker souls. They are, day after day, ever more likely ...

Can the digital sector relaunch France’s national economy ? For a few years now, this question has nagged experts and spawned topquality reports. Despite their relevance, these documents all err by too simply separating the “new technology”, adorned with all virtues and loaded with...

This research aims at examining the appropriation of a collaborative information system (IS), and more precisely users’ intentions to continue using such system. In order to understand the phenomenon of IS continuance, we analyze users’ behaviors, perceptions and their relationship with the...

La question du respect de la vie privée dans l'entreprise et dans les relations commerciales a suscité un intérêt particulier au cours de ces derniers mois. Licenciement pour usage personnel de l'Internet dans l'entreprise, courrier électronique « ouvert » par l'employeur (Kovach & alii,...

Devant la complexité à laquelle est confronté l'utilisateur d'Internet, les agents intelligents se présentent comme un recours. Il y a deux faces à l'intelligence d'un agent: l'une tournée vers l'accomplissement d'une mission, et l'autre tournée vers les objectifs qu'il s'agit de...

The main objective of this article is to integrate different levels of analysis that are focused on the study of the appropriation process of computerized tools. Two main research trends are namely identified. The first one studies appropriation on the institutional level. It will be presented...

This conceptual paper proposes to identify and to characterize a new model to describe and pilot complexity across organizations, through a compared study on three objects : the town, the IS and the firm. After a summary of the principles of the functionalist model, we underline how the...

Community on the Watch: Making Sense of IS Research through the Lens of Espoused Theories of IS In the IS field there has been an ongoing tradition to study the publication output of the community in order to evaluate the current and potential situation of IS research. In this work, we follow a...