期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
卷 20, 期 3, 页码 285-302出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2011.5
关键词
IT-enabled services; service management; service innovation; organizational sensemaking; modular design; case study
Vendors of IT-enabled services must address equivocal and changing requirements from diverse customers while simultaneously making a profit. However, our knowledge of how these organizations can achieve the necessary scalability is limited. Against this backdrop, we leverage organizational sensemaking to investigate how a large vendor attempted to create a scalable service infrastructure through three sequential strategies. This in-depth case study reveals key factors that challenged the efficacy of each strategy. First, addressing equivocality through structural separation exacerbated the organization's challenges because of misaligned collective identities between business units. Second, reducing equivocality through market segmentation proved to be inadequate because individual-level cognitive constraints shaped prepackaged solutions that lacked functionality. Third, responding to equivocality through service modularization was challenged due to lack of social interaction about standardization of component interfaces, system and process redundancies, and inflexible process architectures. We offer a detailed analysis of these strategies and discuss implications in relation to theory and practice. European Journal of Information Systems (2011) 20, 285-302. doi:10.1057/ejis.2011.5; published online 1 March 2011
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