Title
Organizational Decisions for I.T. Standards Adoption: Antecedents and Consequences
Author
Joel West, Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO), University of California, Irvine
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2000)
(Original Publish Date: 2000)
Abstract
This paper examines the adoption decisions for I.T. standards made in three types of large U.S. organizations, using a series of depth interviews. The study relates prior research on standards competition and organizational adoption to technological structuration theories. Preliminary findings show how scarcity of human capital and the variance in external coupling drive standards decisions, and also highlight the role of ideology in interpreting and enacting standards decisions.