Cloud computing · Two-stage qualitative interview study of key informants, analyzed through affordance and inertia theories.
How software as a service simultaneously affords organizational agility and constrains IT units
Peer-reviewed research · 2023
Summary
Identifies implementing quickly and sourcing independently as basic affordances, yielding trialing alternatives and self-organizing business teams; five categories of IT-unit inertia hinder agility.
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Possible founder application
Build fast trials and independent sourcing while addressing IT governance/inertia; measure time from sensing to acting and integration friction.
Reported result
What the study found
Identifies implementing quickly and sourcing independently as basic affordances, yielding trialing alternatives and self-organizing business teams; five categories of IT-unit inertia hinder agility.
Research question
What the authors investigated
How does SaaS adoption enable organizational agility, and what organizational mechanisms hinder those benefits?
Design
Two-stage qualitative interview study of key informants, analyzed through affordance and inertia theories.
Sample and setting
Key informants in large organizations; organizational IT units and SaaS adoption setting (numeric sample not stated in the fetched abstract).
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Qualitative large-organization setting and unspecified accessible sample limit generalization; detailed article limitations should be consulted.
Research sources
ScienceDirect abstract and conclusion fetched here support design, setting, affordances and inertia findings; no numeric sample was invented. Firecrawl research job 01a14366-d263-71d0-bc44-b95482987b7b returned this citation and metadata.