Organizational Dynamics of Technology-Based Innovation: Diversifying the Research Agenda IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, June 14-16, 2007, Manchester, UK

I am honored to be General Chair for the 2007 (10*^) Working Conference of IFIP Working Group 8.6.1 had some part in helping with the formation of this working group. Participating in this conference in Manchester reflects my interest in the working group and its research domain. The conference is also something of an anniversary, since the second conference of the working group was held nearby 10 years ago. I have some reflections on the formation and early conferences of the working group, the comparative advantage of being sponsored by IFIP and TC8, the reasons for WG 8.6, and the important contributions of the working group and this conference. Reflections on the Formation of WG 8.6 and Early Conferences I was Chair of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Technical Committee 8 (Information Systems) for two terms from 1990 through 1995. It was in 1993 when the proposal was made to form a new working group on Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology. I supported the proposal and remember well how active and persuasive Priscilla Fowler and Linda Levine were in making the case for establishing a new working group.

Conferences as Epistemological Experiments.- Conferences as Epistemological Experiments.- Keynotes and Invited Papers.- Organizational Dynamics of Technology-Based Innovation.- Turning The Digital Divide Into a Digital Dividend.- Dropping Your Tools.- Cooperative Models for Information Technology Transfer in the Context of Open Innovation.- Process Modeling Information Systems Development.- Novel Perspectives in Innovation Research.- An Exploration of Information Systems Adoption.- Re-Searching Commonality Differently.- The Situatedness of Work Practices and Organizational Culture.- User-Led Innovation in Call Center Knowledge Work.- Contextual Analysis as Support for Successful Innovation in Complex Environments.- The Identity, Dynamics, and Diffusion of MIS.- Software Process Improvement.- Use of Appreciative Inquiry in Successful Process Improvement.- Measuring Process Innovations and Improvements.- The Views of Experts on the Current State of Agile Method Tailoring.- The Impact of Methods and Techniques on Outcomes from Agile Software Development Projects.- Actor Network Theory.- The Inertia of ERP Projects.- Make Technology Invisible, or Keep it Visible?.- Implementation of a Customer Services Information Systems Strategy in a Higher Education Context.- The Dynamics of an IOIS in the Seaport of Barcelona.- A Dynamic Approach to Context in Diffusion Research.- Working with Technology in Complex Networks of Interaction.- Technological Interlude: The Case of RFID.- RFID Adoption.- Information Systems Innovation Research and the Case of RFID.- Firm Level Adoption Factors.- Extending the Research Agenda on Diffusion of Innovations.- Exploring the Role of Government in Information Technology Diffusion.- SME Adoption of Enterprise Systems in the Northwest of England.- Information Technology Diffusion in the Jordanian Telecom Industry.- Position Papers.- Challenges for Creativity and Innovation in Mobile and Transient Virtual Environments.- Attaining Organizational Innovations.- Knowledge Ecosystems.- The Triple Helix, Open Innovation, and the DOI Research Agenda.- Bringing an Integral Approach to the Field of Technology Diffusion Research.- Software Innovation as Maintenance.- Exploring Structural Changes Of the Communications Network During Organizational Crisis.- Research And Information Systems.- Psychological Reactance and Information Systems Adoption.- The New Challenge of Business Value.- Socio-Technical Design of the 21st Century.- When Counterfactual Thinking Meets the Technology Acceptance Model.- The Myth of Alignment.- Coaching the Application of Agile Software Development.- Panels.- Complexity Theory and the Diffusion of Innovations.- Global Diffusion of Broadband.