Project Activities

Standardization as Collective Action

Building Industry IT Standards for Interorganizational Coordination

Presentations and Other Project News

2008
  • April 2008. Rolf Wigand. Interorganizational Information System Integration through Industry-wide Standardization: Technical Design Choices and Collective Action Dilemmas, presented to the Cyber Transportation Logistics: A Global Value Chain for Services Conference, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation Resort at Petit Jean Mountain, Morrilton, AR, April 4, 2008.
  • April 2008. Lynn Markus. Collective IT Governance—Trends and Issues in Organizational Information Technology Use, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, April 4, 2008
  • March 2008. Lynn Markus. Collective IT Governance—Trends and Issues in Organizational Information Technology Use, CIS/IPM Seminar Series, Bentley College, March 17, 2008
  • March 2008. Rolf Wigand. Vertical IS Standards Development in a Supply Chain Context: Experiences from the US Home Mortgage Industry, presented to the EMIM Program, University of Amsterdam, Marquette Castle, Heemskerk, The Netherlands, March 13, 2008.
  • March 2008. Rolf Wigand. Evolution and Impacts of Vertical IS Standards: Past and Current NSF-funded Research in the US Mortgage, Footwear and Apparel and Automotive Parts Supply Industry, presented to the Pirmavera Network, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 12, 2008.
  • March 2008. Rolf Wigand. Evolution and Impacts of Vertical IS Standards: Experiences from the US Home Mortgage Industry, presented to the Faculty of the Free University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 11, 2008.
  • February 2008. Rolf Wigand. Evolution and Impacts of Vertical IS Standards: Experiences from the US Home Mortgage Industry, presented to the Faculty, Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, February 15, 2008.
2007
  • December 2007. Lynn Markus. Keynote Speaker, Future Requirements for Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization, 2nd Enterprise Systems Pre-ICIS 2007 Workshop, Montreal, CA, December 9, 2007.
  • November 2007. Lynn Markus. Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization: Collective Action and Performance Outcome, Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business, City University of Hong Kong, SAR, CH, November 20, 2007
  • November 2007. Lynn Markus. Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization: Collective Action and Performance Outcomes, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) /City University of Hong Kong Joint Research Center, Suzhou, CH, November 16, 2007
  • November 2007. Lynn Markus. Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization: Collective Action and Performance Outcomes, Information Management Research Centre (IMARC), Nanyang Business School, Singapore, November 9, 2007
  • October 2007. Lynn Markus. Interorganizational Data and Process Standardization: Collective Action and Performance Outcomes, 10/3/07; IT-Enabling Supply Chains for Superior Business Performance, Sheffield Management School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, October 5, 2007
  • August 2007. New NSF Grant awarded from Human Centered Computing program: Collaborative Research: Interorganizational Information Systems Integration Through Industry-wide IS Standardization: Technical Design Choices and Collective Action Dilemmas (NSF award numbers: 0704629, 0704978, 0705186)
  • August 2007. MISQ paper receives 2006 Best Paper Award
  • August 2007. Lynne Markus. Keynote presenter (Forthcoming), Standardization as Collective Action, GS1 France Université d’ été, Nantes, France, August 31, 2007
  • June 2007. Rolf Wigand. Adoption and Diffusion of Information Technology: The Case of Electronic Commerce and Interorganizational Standardization. Invited keynote presentation to DIGIT, European Conference on Information Systems, St. Gallen, Switzerland, June 6, 2007.
  • January 2007. Rolf Wigand. Wertschaffung durch Informationssysteme und Technologie im Bankwesen: Erfahrungen, Vergleiche und Bemerkungen von verwandten Industrien und Prozessen [Adding Value through Information Systems and Technology in the Banking Industry: Experiences, Comparisons and Observations from Related Industries and Processes]. Invited Keynote Presentation to the Semiannual Meeting of eFinance Lab, Darmstadt, Germany, January 23, 2007.
2006
  • December 2006. Rolf Wigand. IS Vertical Industry Standardization: Experiences and Lessons Learned. Presentation to the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, December 7, 2006.
  • November 2006. Rolf Wigand. Diffusion of Standardization and Electronic Commerce Practices in Industries. Invited Presentation to the IT Summit, Little Rock, AR, November 1, 2006.
  • June 2006. Rolf Wigand. Value-Adding Standardization Processes: Experiences from Recent NSF Research. Presentation to the Annual INFORMS Conference, Hong Kong, China, June 27, 2006.
  • June 2006. M. Lynne Markus. Encoding Knowledge: Automated Underwriting in the US Home Mortgage Industry, Workshop on Management Knowledge in Action, Bentley College, Waltham, MA. June 2, 2006.
  • May 2006. Rolf Wigand presented “IS Standardization as Collective Action in the U. S. Mortgage Industry.” Presentation to the Institute for Business informatics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, May 22, 2006.
  • March 2006. M. Lynne Markus. Tight Connections: Using Information Technology to Link Business Processes Across Organizations, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, March 28, 2006
  • March 2006. M. Lynne Markus. Building Complex Infrastructures for Interorganizational Information Sharing, HEC Montreal, Montreal, 3/17/06.
2005
  • December 2005.. The special issue of Electronic Markets on Vertical Information Systems Standards and Standardization appeared in as volume 15, number 4. M. Lynne Markus, Rolf Wigand, and Charles Steinfield co-edited this special issue, and prepared the preface article, December, 2005
  • November 2005. M. Lynne Markus. Invited participant and presenter, Designing Interorganizational Relationships and Information Systems with a Positive Lens, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, Conference on Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens. November 12, 2005
  • October 2005. The Computerization Movement in the US Home Mortgage Industry, 1980-2004, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. October 28, 2005
  • September 2005. Charles Steinfield presented “Achieving Industry Wide E-Commerce Standards as a Collective Action Problem,” at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, September 20, 2005.
  • May 2005. Charles Steinfield, M. Lynne Markus and Rolf Wigand participated in ” Collective Action in an Internet Age: Contributions of Communication Researchers to Collective Action Theory,” at the International Communication Association Annual Conference, New York City, New York, May 29 2005.
  • March 2005. M. Lynne Markus presented “The Computerization Movement in the US Home Mortgage Industry, 1980-2004,” at the Conference on Extending the Contributions of Professor Rob Kling to the Analysis of Computerization Movements, UC Irvine, Irvine, California, March 12 2005.
2004
  • September 2004. Rolf Wigand, M. Lynne Markus, and Charles Steinfield issued a Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal Electronic Markets dealing with vertical information system standards. The special issue focuses on the growing importance of industry-wide initiatives to develop e-business standards, stimulated by the increasing popularity of XML over the Internet. The call for papers can still be viewed, but is now closed.
  • August 2004. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago published a special edition of the Chicago Fed Letter on the economics of standards that features the work presented by Steinfield, Wigand, Markus, and Minton at the earlier May conference on “Standards and Public Policy.”
  • July 2004. Lynne Markus presented our project in a talk on “Knowledge and Innovation Issues for Chief Executives - Industry IS/IT Collaborations” at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, July 6, 2004.
  • July 2004. M. Lynne Markus presented “Interorganizational Coordination Infrastructures: Problems and Prospects,” National Technological University of Singapore, Singapore, July 20, 2004.
  • June 2004. Charles Steinfield presented “Promoting E-Business Through Vertical IS Standards: Lessons from the US Home Mortgage Industry” at Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark, June 9, 2004.
  • June 2004. Rolf Wigand presented “Vertical IS Standards Evolution in the US Home Mortgage Industry.” Munich, Germany, University of Munich, June 17, 2004.
  • June 2004. Charles Steinfield presented “Developing vertical IS standards as a means toward e-business,” at the Center for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, June 21 2004.
  • May 2004. Charles Steinfield, Rolf Wigand, and Lynne Markus presented “Promoting e-business through vertical IS standards,” at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank conference on Standards and Public Policy, (pre-publication draft available below), May 13-14, 2004
  • March 2004. M. Lynne Markus presented “IT-Enabled Transformation in the US Home Mortgage Sector” at ESADE in Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 2004.
  • February 2004. M. Lynne Markus presented “The Ambient Industry: IT-Enabled Transformation in the US Home Mortgage Sector,” at the Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark Conference on “The Future Role of IT in Strategizing: How Companies Transform Themselves To Become ‘Ambient Organizations’ Capable of Competing in the Digital Age”, February 26, 2004
  • January 2004. Rolf Wigand presented “The Evolution of Vertical IS Standards: Electronic Interchange Standards in the US Home Mortgage Industry.” Frankfurt, Germany, University of Frankfurt, January 20, 2004.
2003
  • December 2003. “The Dark Side of Information and Communication Technologies: View from the Industry Level of Analysis,” International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle, Washington. Insights from the mortgage industry study were be presented. Panelists included: Kevin Crowston of Syracuse University, Ken Kraemer of UC Irvine, M. Lynne Markus of Bentley College, Steve Sawyer of Pennsylvania State University, Charles Steinfield of Michigan State University, and Rolf Wigand of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. December 14-17, 2003
  • December 2003. Markus, M. L., Steinfield, C., and Wigand, R. The evolution of vertical IS standards: Electronic data interchange standards in the home mortgage industry. Presented to the MISQ Special Issue Workshop on “Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems,” Seattle, (working paper available below) December 12-14, 2003
  • November 2003. Rolf Wigand presented “E-commerce Business Models in the US Home Mortgage Industry,” STAR Research Conference, Milan, Italy. (working paper available below)
  • October 2003. M. Lynne Markus gave keynote presentation on “IT Standards and the Adoption of Interorganizational Systems in the US Home Mortgage Industry,” IFIP 8.6 Working Conference on The Diffusion and Adoption of Networked Information Technologies, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 6, 2003.
  • October 2003. Rolf Wigand presented “Evolving eBusiness Models: Lessons Learned from Two Industries,” e- Challenges Conference of the European Union in Bologna, Italy, October 22-24, 2003.
  • March 2003. Rolf Wigand presented an overview of the project at the Vrije University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
  • February 2003. M. Lynne Markus presented “Essays on Impacts: Grappling with IT Impacts in the US Home Mortgage Industry.” Presented at the University of Central Florida, City University of Hong Kong, and Bentley College.