A Stakeholder Perspective to Study Enterprisewide is Initiatives

Over the last decades, information systems (IS) have become pervasive in and inextricably inter-twined with organizations. Further, the dialectical interaction between IS and organizations is perceived as one of the major stimuli of organizational strategic moves and transformation. Notwithstanding a plethora of IS artifact-centric discussions in the extant literature, there is a need for an overarching conceptualization that goes beyond specific IS artifacts and simultane-ously accounts for a fusion between IS and organizations, which we denominated as enterprise-wide IS initiatives. To afford a paradigm shift towards an enterprise-wide investigation of such a phenomenon, this study opts for a stakeholder perspective and proposes complementary theo-retical lenses to conceive the given phenomenon as a stakeholder management endeavor. To assist analyses of this phenomenon, this study also sheds light on the necessity of its investiga-tion in multiple levels of analysis and in different periods of time. This phenomenon is hence fur-ther characterized as an emergent, ongoing endeavor. Building on both stakeholder manage-ment and emergent analyses, this study proposes a theoretical foundation to guide prospective theorizations on enterprise-wide IS initiatives and discusses its implications.

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