Diffusing Software Products and Process Innovations 2001: Banff, Canada

Mark A. Ardis, Barbara L. Marcolin (Eds.): Diffusing Software Products and Process Innovations, IFIP TC8 WG8.1 Fourth Working Conference on Diffusing Software Products and Process Innovations, April 7-10, 2001, Banff, Canada. IFIP Conference Proceedings 187 Kluwer 2001, ISBN 0-7923-7331-6

Message from General Chair

E. Burton Swanson: Telling an Innovation Story. 1-4

Implementation and Coordination Issues

Carla Freericks: A Web Innovations on Software Process-Center for Diffusing Techniques. 5-16
Jan Pries-Heje, Susanne Tryde: Diffusion and Adoption of IT Products and Processes in a Danish Bank. 17-34

New Interpretations of Diffusion Theory

Tor J. Larsen: The Phenomenon of Diffusion. 35-50
Toshio Mitsufuji: A Perspective of the Innovation- Diffusion Process from the Self- Organizing System. 51-66
Tom McMaster: The Illusion of Diffusion in Information Systems Research. 67-86

Software Process

Karlheinz Kautz, Henrik Westergaard Hansen, Kim Thaysen: Understanding and Changing Software Organizations. 87-110
Ingegerd Andersson, Kerstin Nilsson: Diagnosing Diffusion Practices Within a Software Organization. 111-130

Contextual Factors

Richard Veryard: The Diffusion of Components. 131-146
L. Levine, G. Syzdek: Across the Divide: Two Organisations Form a Virtual Team and Codeveplo a Product. 147-172
Kalle Lyytinen, Jan Damsgaard: What's Wrong with the Diffusion of Innovation Theory. 173-190

Communication of Information

William D. Stuart, Tracy Callaway Russo, Howard E. Sypher, Thelma E. Simons, Lisa K. Hallberg: Influences of Sources of Communication on Adoption of a Communication Technology. 191-204
Pouya Pourkomeylian: Knowledge Creation in Improving a Software Organisation. 205-224

Experience Reports

Klaus Jul Jeppesen: How to Live with Software Problems. 225-240
Bjarne Däcker: Introducing Concurrent Functional Programming in the Telecommunications Industry. 241-256
Andrew P. Jansma: Change and Adaptive Behavior in Organizations. 257-276
Helle Zinner Henriksen: In Search of an Efficient EDIcebreaker. 277-292
Alan S. Koch: Process Definition in Web- Time. 293-