Although interest in the use of grounded theory methods has been increasing over the last decade, Urquhart, Lehmann, and Myers (2010) take note of the criticism that, in fact, such use has not yet produced higher levels of theory development in IS research. Along these lines, the current essay...

This paper examines scientific collaboration between French public research teams and distant partners. We first analyse the role and the development of trust and then, the relation between the degree of sophistication of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the constraint of...

Several authors have demonstrated the importance of inter-organizational relationships for the development of biotechnology companies. Most of the works on this industrial sector analyze exclusively the contractual agreements of the companies. In this article, we propose to extend the study of...

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...

At the end of the 1980’s, Callon and Latour started a new school of thought which is indifferently named, Sociology of Translation, Sociology of Innovation, Translation Theory or Actor Network Theory. The starting point of their work was mostly philosophical and epistemological: they...

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...