Inter-organisational Information Systems / Industry-wide Information Infrastructures
From Data Exchanges to Data Markets: An Institutional Perspective. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Panama City, August 9-12, 2023 (together with Xunhua Guo). The conference page includes a short video presentation of the paper.
On the Economic Nature of Medical Information: Implications for the Development of Information Infrastructures in the Healthcare Sector. In: Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 3-6, 2023, pp. 2809–2817 (together with Yumei Luo).
Infrastructure as a Home for a Person: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Star and Ruhleder’s Relational ViewMIS Quarterly, Vol. 46 (2022), No. 3, pp. 1551–1572, preprint version (together with Robert B. Johnston and Stefan Schellhammer).
Perspektiven auf Informationsinfrastruktur (Perspectives on Information Infrastructure, in German). In: T. Kollmann: Handbuch Digitale Wirtschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2020. Contingent on access provided by your library, this paper may be downloadable from the Springer Website ‘Meteor’.
Emergence of an Information Infrastructure through Integrating Waste Drug Recycling, Medication Management, and Household Drug Management in China. In: Proceedings of the Fiftysecond Hawaii International Conference on Information Systems, January 8-11, 2019 (together with Yumei Luo). This paper is also available from ScholarSpace.
Beyond Markets, Hierarchies, and Hybrids. An Institutional Perspective on IT-enabled Two-sided Markets. Electronic Markets, published online on Nov. 21, 2018 (together with Xunhua Guo and Mingzhi Li). This Open Access Article is also available directly from the Journal’s website.
Living Infrastructure. In: K. Riemer, S. Schellhammer, and M. Meinert (Eds.): Collaboration in the Digital Age. How Technology Enables Individuals, Teams and Businesses. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 249–267 (together with Robert B. Johnston). A Preprint of this article is available from ResearchGate.
An Institutional Perspective on Two-sided Networks. In: Proceedings of the Thirty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems, December 11-14, 2016, Dublin, Ireland (together with Xunhua Guo and Mingzhi Li). This paper is also available from the AIS Electronic Library.
Network Relations and Boundary Spanning: Understanding the Evolution of e-ordering in the Chinese Drug Distribution Industry. Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 29 (2014), pp. 223-236, pre-print version (together with Xunhua Guo, Bin Xie and Mingzhi Li).
Emergence of Information Infrastructures: A Tale of Two Islands. International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Vol. 11, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 231–251 (together with Stefan Schellhammer and Stefan Klein).
Seeing EMR Emergence through a Practice Lens: Implications for Smaller Healthcare Practices. In: Proceedings of the 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013), Chicago, Illinois, August 15-17, 2013 (together with Stefan Klein, Robert B. Johnston, and Susanna Steiner van der Kruk). This paper is also available from the AIS Electronic Library.
Novice-based Data Collection Methods for the Study of IOIS: Practice Probes and Learning Communities. Electronic Markets, published online on April 16 2013; pre-print version (together with Robert B. Johnston, Xunhua Guo, Stefan Klein, Bin Xie and Mingzhi Li). This paper is also available from SSRN. The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com.
Novice-based Data Collection Methods for the Study of IOIS: Practice Probes and Learning Communities. In: Proceedings of the 24th Bled eCommerce Conference “eFuture”, Bled, Slovenia, June 12-15, 2011; winner of the outstanding conference paper awared (together with Robert B. Johnston, Xunhua Guo, Stefan Klein, Bin Xie and Mingzhi Li).
Learning Communities und Praktiksonden als Instrumente der Analyse und Entwicklung Industrieweiter Informationsinfrastrukturen. (Learning Communities and Practice Probes as Tools for Analysing and Developing Industry-wide Information Infrastructures, in German). In: A. Breiter and M. Wind (eds.): Informationstechnik und ihre Organisationslücken. Muenster: Lit-Verlag, 2011, pp. 201-237.
The Difficulty of Studying Inter-organisational IS Phenomena on Large Scales: Critical Reflections on a Research Journey. Electronic Markets, Vol. 20, Nos. 3-4 (December 2010), pp. 229-240. (together with Robert B. Johnston and Stefan Klein). This paper is also available from SSRN. The final publication is available from www.springerlink.com.
Toward A Theory of IOIS Variance: A New Framework for Studying Inter-Organisational Information Systems. International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July-September 2010), pp. 36-56 (together with Robert B. Johnston and Stefan Klein). Copyright 2010, IGI Global. Posted by permission of the publisher.
Understanding Resilience and Evolution of IOIS in the Australian Pharmaceutical Distribution Industry. In: Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems, December 16 – 18 2009, Phoenix (together with Robert B. Johnston and Stefan Klein). Also available from from AIS at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2009/124/
Challenges in Explaining Structure and Evolution of Inter-organizational Information Systems — Lessons from an Empirical Research Journey. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Bled eCommerce Conference “eEnablement”, Bled, Slovenia, June 14-17, 2009 (together with Robert B. Johnston and Stefan Klein).
Beyond Mutual Shaping — Rethinking Symmetry and Causality in the Treatment of Socio-material Systems. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), 20-23 August 2008, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (together with Robert B. Johnston, Stefan Klein, Thomas Wagner and Stefan Schellhammer).
The Use of an Explicitly Theory-Driven Data Coding Method for High-Level Theory Testing in IOIS. In: Proceedings of the Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems, Paper 184, December 15 – 17 2008, Paris (together with Robert B. Johnston). Also available from from AIS at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2008/184
Theorizing Evolution of Inter-organizational Information Systems on Long Timescales. In: Proceedings of JAIS Theory Development Workshop, Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, Vol. 8 (2008), Article 31 (together with Robert B. Johnston and Stefan Klein).
Evolutionary Paths of Inter-organizational Information Systems (IOIS). Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE 2008), Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, June 20-21, 2008 (together with Stefan Klein, Stefan Schellhammer and Kai Riemer).
Explaining Persistence and Resilience of Inter-organisational Information Systems: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations. In: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Information Systems, Galway, Ireland, June 9-11, 2008 (together with Robert B. Johnston).
Interaction of Technological and Institutional Change in the Development of an Electronic Commerce System in China’s Pharmaceutical Distribution Chain — A Transaction Cost Perspective. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF), Funchal, Portugal, 28-31 January, 2008 (together with Minzhi Li).
The Shaping of Inter-Organisational Information Systems: Main Design Considerations of an International Comparative Research Project. In: Proceedings of the 17th Bled eCommerce Conference “eGlobal”, Bled, Slovenia, June 21-23, 2004 (together with Robert B. Johnston and Stefan Klein).
Developing Sustainable B2B E-Commerce Scenarios in the Chinese Context. In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 6-9, 2003.
The Unit of Analysis in E-Commerce Studies. Discussion Paper, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Semptember 12, 2002, Beijing.
Theoretical Impediments to Understanding B2B E-Commerce. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Electronic Commerce, City University of Hong Kong, October 23-25, 2002, (together with Mingzhi Li).
The Development of Electronic Data Interchange Networks from an Institutional Perspective. In: R. Williams (ed.): The Social Shaping of Inter-organizational IT Systems and Electronic Data Interchange. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1995, pp. 109-127 (together with Kurt Monse).
Inter-organizational Networking and the Institutional Gap. In: A. Clement, P. Kolm, I. Wagner (eds.): Networking – Connecting Workers in and between Organizations. Amsterdam et al.: North-Holland, 1994, pp. 191-200 (together with Kurt Monse).
The Role of Intermediary Organizations in the Development and Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange. Report for the EC-Commission, DG III, TEDIS-Programme, Institut für Wirtschaft und Technik, University of Wuppertal, September 24, 1993, Wuppertal (together with H. Kubicek and K. Monse). Appendix.
ERP Implementation
Supply Chain Resource Planning Systems: A Proposal. In: Proceedings of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2012), Seattle, Washington, August 9-11, 2012, Paper 11 (with Xunhua Guo).This paper is also available from the AIS Electronic Library.
Implementing ERP Systems in China. In: Communications of the AIS, Vol. 11 (2003), Article 20, pp. 335-356. Note: The copyright of this article is owned by the Association for Information Systems and use of it for profit is not allowed. The Communications of the AIS are available at aisel.aisnet..org/cais/.
Implementing ERP Systems in China — Report on a Questionnaire Survey. Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management, Beijing, May 30, 2001.
Schneider Electric China: Implementing an Enterprise System to Support Rapid Development. Case Study, School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University, October 20, 2000, Beijing.
Other
Antecedents of a Transaction Cost Theory of Vertical IS Standardisation Processes: Erratum. This is an Erratum to a paper published under the same title in Electronic Markets, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 301-312 (with Mingzhi Li ).
A Transaction Cost Perspective of Corporate Involvement in OSS. Paper presented at the Fifth International Triple Helix Conference — Capitalization of Knowledge: Cognitive, Economic, Social & Cultural Aspects, Turin, Italy, 18-21 May 2005 (with Mingzhi Li ).
Automating Coordination Mechanisms: Markets, Hierarchies, and Associations. In: L. Svensson et al. (eds.): Proceedings of the 23rd Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia (IRIS 23), Laboratorium for Interaction Technology, University of Trollhättan Uddevalla, Sweden, August 12-15, 2000, Vol. II, pp. 1417-1439.
Managing Information Technology in the Transnational Organization. In: Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. III, edited by J.F. Nunamaker and R.H. Sprague, Los Alamitos/CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997, pp. 372-380.