Investigating the Cultural Dimension of IT-Usage: IT-Acculturation, an Essential Construct in IS Research

In this conceptual article we investigate the cultural dimension of IT-usage through the concept of ITacculturation. This concept has been emerging in the research literature about IT-usage. Extending work from the acculturation field of research, we do not conceptualize IT-acculturation as a simple one-way linear process but rather as a recursive, multi-level process and also as a state at a given moment in time. In order to propose means of assessing IT-acculturation, we show that one may choose an approach through values and IT-values, or motivation and IT-motivation, or needs and IT-needs, or again one may combine some of these different concepts. We underline however that these concepts should be investigated at three levels that we detail. We then apply our theoretical framework and propose a new model of IT-usage that includes its cultural dimension. We bring forward a set of propositions that may open the way to fertile new research paths

Development of an Instrument to Assess Individual IT Culture

Reconsidering IT usage as part of a cultural phenomenon drives us to envisage the development of a new instrument to assess the construct of Individual IT Culture (IITC). IT-culture is a concept which has started only recently to appear in IS literature. Grounding our research in psycho sociology and the theories of needs and motivation, which have considerably evolved in the last two decades, we propose the development of a new scale to assess this new concept and, through two-step clustering, we apply this new instrument in order to start verifying a users’ typology based on the users’ IITC

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Review of theories and research related to prelinguistic speech

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The Role of IT Culture in IT Management: Searching for Individual Archetypal IT Cultural Profiles

This article presents findings from an ethnographic study aimed at developing a typology of IT users based upon their Individual IT Culture. Social Identity Theory and the existence of a Technologicvl Cwltural vayev in6eac~ anvividual are the two main underpinnings of this typology, which is approached in a holistic perspective of the concept of culture. This offers a new path to understanding IT adoption and diffusion in organizations, which is an alternative to traditional theories using Organizational Culture and National Culture as frameworks in IS research. Our typology, built upon users’ self identities, develops eight archetypal profiles of IT-users. Within these identities, IT-assumptions, IT-values and IT-practices compose what we present as the users’ technological cultural identities or profiles. This typology is then used to illustrate how individuals, depending on their Individual Technological Cultural Profiles, can play different roles in the socialization processes which are induced by the IT implementation projects

Reviewing the literature in the IS field: Two bibliometric techniques to guide readings and help the interpretation of the literature

In this article, we show how to apply profitably bibliometric analysis in IS research as a way to help review and highlight patterns in the literature, and complement traditional methods to do so. This approach can help guide researchers to interpret a more traditional literature review by highlighting important texts to investigate in priority and more particularly. We propose specifically to use two techniques in a complementary manner, co-citation analysis of references and bibliographic coupling analysis of documents, which are described while highlighting the main methodological steps and relevant issues. We illustrate and demonstrate the value of the complementary use of both techniques in a dense and well-established research domain within the IS field: Strategic alignment

The Spinning Top Model, a New Path to Conceptualize Culture and Values: Applications to IS Research

In this conceptual study we first categorize, from existing literature, different conceptions of culture rooted in Anthropology and Sociology. We argue that these conceptions build up the logical structure of specific theoretical and empirical tools which address human/IS interactions in a cultural-based perspective. We then propose a new model of the individual’s global culture, the Spinning Top Model. We posit theoretical proposals based on this model and define a new analytical framework which can open new paths for IS research, the study of IT-related values , IT-attitudes and IT-behaviors

Developing the Concept of Individual IT-Culture: The Spinning Top Metaphor

Culture, a popular though complex concept, has been recognized to influence implementation and usages of Information Technologies. Many empirical studies, using a cultural framework, have been carried out in Information Systems research. Most of them focus on the organizational and/or the national culture as surrogates to evaluate the role of culture within IS contexts. In this paper we categorize, from existing literature, different conceptions of culture rooted in diverse disciplines like anthropology, organizational studies and IS research. We then call on a spinning top metaphor to construct a model of the individual’s global culture as a set of rotating cylinders embedded in, and built upon, an innate core cylindrical axis. Those cylinders relate to specific cultural layers of the individual: ethnic, organizational, national…and technological. These layers are permeable, dynamic and their volume as well as their relative positioning, with respect to each other and to the central innate core, can change; the layers will vary depending on the successive socialization processes occurring during the individual’s lifetime. The conception of culture as a root metaphor of the individual and not only as an influential variable is central to this model. Therefore, we discuss the utility of the use of metaphors in cultural studies, more especially in organizational and IS research, and finally present how the spinning top metaphor can open a new path to study IT-related values and their impacts on IT-effective usages

Sharing Research with Pleasure (ShaRP) and Sharing Knowledge Forward (SKF) to Peers – A SKEMA1 Initiative

International audienceThis project is not the project of one or several professors. First and foremost, it is the project of an institution: SKEMA Business School. Through the name that was chosen for our school (SKEMA = School of Knowledge, Economy and Management), it has been made obvious that knowledge has an essential place in SKEMA and is its main driver. In such a project, it is essential to pay tribute to all direct and indirect contributors and facilitators because each "node" of the resulting knowledge network is, indeed, essential for its survival and expansion. It is also important to highlight the essential role of our Dean, Alice Guilhon. This project would never have been born if she had not seen in it much more than some unrealistic idealism, if she had not considered the possible potency of the resulting knowledge network and, also, if she had not provided the means to institutionalize and encourage the simple endeavour of a few professors. The project highlights the importance of sharing knowledge with pleasure in a peer network and how this type of network positively encourages sharing knowledge forward

Re-conceptualizing IS Strategic Alignment: the Translated Strategic Alignment Model (TSAM)

In this article, we propose a new conceptualization of strategic alignment leading to the proposal of a new model: the Translated Strategic Alignment Model (TSAM). We adopt a grounded theory approach, while studying three corporations. We then extend our research to other corporations through a Delphi method with five experts (IS consultants). The model of strategic alignment that we propose includes a three-level network involving the essential alignment of various stakeholders’ needs. We bring forward a new perspective on the fits traditionally studied in the literature and we propose seven fits whose “shores”1 make sense to practitioners. In corporations TSAM may open a new path leading to the achievement of organizational performance and competitive advantage in an organizational climate which may be socially enhanced