Pour l’essentiel, les recherches traitant des valeurs stratégiques du SI restent dans le paradigme de l’alignement stratégique, et utilisent des notions telles que celles de "processus" ou "d’activités". En s’appuyant sur la perspective offerte par les théories de la pratique, cet...

The following article suggests a critical realistic framework, which aims at modeling sociotechnical change linked to end-users' IT appropriation: the "archetypal approach". The basic situations it includes (the "sociotechnical archetypes"), and the possible appropriative trajectories that...

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 different strategy and study what IS research claims to be. We look at those so-called 'espoused...

In the past thirty years, academic work in the field of business has evolved from an applied field to a theoretically grounded, rigorous, scientific field of inquiry garnering the attention of high-quality academics from the fields of psychology, sociology, economics, and political science and...

Developed in the business sector, where it proved to increase employee motivation, enhance customer support services and overall business efficiency, Knowledge Management found its way to higher education institutions. This paper tries to argument the benefits of using KM principles when...

The paper presents a generic framework of an intelligent information system for competence management based on ontologies for information technology companies. The advantage of using an ontology-based system is the possibility of the identification of new relations among concepts based on...

This paper aims to argue why software architecture, does no matter designed to manipulate knowledge or to support regular business activities, must change to adapt to the knowledge era. The first steps in this demarche will be represented in establishing a common meaning for different notions...

In this paper a presentation is given of how collaborative tools and social networking applications can be used inside IT companies. The field of IT was chosen for its particularities and the particularities of the companies in it. Driven by these singularities, IT companies are one of the early...

This paper presents the evaluation of distributed and collaborative systems from the knowledge point of view, the most important asset of these kinds of systems. The paper analyses the quality characteristics of distributed collaborative systems and proposes a metric to evaluate the aspects of...

In the actual context of developing digital services, the promotion of a system that manages multiple e-commerce sites can be extremely valuable in increasing the economic effects for the companies. This paper presents the current stage of the experimental system design and implementation, an...