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PING WANG
Ph.D. University of Maryland 4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing College Park, MD 20742 Phone: (301) 593-4518 Fax: (301) 314-9145 pwang (at) umd . edu |
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PING WANG
Ph.D. University of Maryland 4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing College Park, MD 20742 Phone: (301) 593-4518 Fax: (301) 314-9145 pwang (at) umd . edu |
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| Research Interests | |
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Management of Information Technology
Innovations in Organizations > Technology Entrepreneurship > Institutional Analysis of Technological and Organizational Change |
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| Sample Publications | |
| 1. | Research Directions in Information Systems: Toward an Institutional Ecology (with Neil C. Ramiller and E. Burton Swanson in Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 2008, volume 9, number 1, pp. 1-22) |
| How do the research agendas of the Information Systems field actually get decided? Here we consider the implications of the field’s embeddedness within its larger institutional milieu. Read more ... | |
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Launching Professional Services Automation: Institutional Entrepreneurship for Information Technology Innovations (with E. Burton Swanson in Information and Organization, 2007, volume 17, number 2, pp. 59-88) |
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Why do some information technology innovations come to be adopted widely while others do not? One promising research stream has begun to investigate how institutional factors shape the diffusion of IT innovations. Here we examine how these institutional factors themselves are shaped. Specifically, we explore how interested actors termed institutional entrepreneurs develop institutional arrangements to launch an IT innovation toward widespread adoption. Read more ... |
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Whatever Happened to BPR? The Rise, Fall, and Possible Revival of Business Process Reengineering: From the Organizing Vision Perspective (in Business Process Transformation, edited by Varun Grover and M. Lynne Markus, published by M.E. Sharpe, pp. 23-40). |
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Studying the discourse on business process reengineering (BPR) in the past fifteen years, I found that the popularity of BPR, at different times, was associated with the popularity of four other concepts: total quality management (TQM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), knowledge management, and e-business. |
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Knowing Why and How to Innovate with Packaged Business Software (with E. Burton Swanson, in Journal of Information Technology, 2005, volume 20, number 1, pp. 20-31) |
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When firms innovate with information technology, what knowledge must they have or gain, in order to be successful? Here we offer a simple model that explains a firm’s success in innovating with IT in terms of two basic knowledge-related components, termed adoption know-why and implementation know-how. Read more ... |
| Dissertation: Fashion in Information Technology | |
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Hype and excitement about new IT, though ubiquitous, have not been studied seriously. The past several decades saw numerous IT undergo wide swings in popularity. Expert systems, CASE, client-server computing, and more recently ERP and CRM constitute notable examples of fashion. Drawing on management fashion theory, I studied three features of IT fashion: the launching process, its lifecycle, and the collective learning process it fosters. |
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| Working Projects and Papers | |
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Scalable Computational Analysis of
the Diffusion of Technological Concepts (sponsored by the
National Science Foundation Human and Social Dynamics
grant) Applies computational linguistics and information retrieval techniques to research on the diffusion of technological innovation concepts and ideas (with Douglas Oard and Ken Kenneth Fleischmann). Read more ... |
| 2. | What happens to organizations that chase the hottest information technologies? This paper examines some of the important organizational consequences of the fashion phenomenon in the world of IT. (presented at the 2007 Academy of Management annual meeting and won the Best Paper Award in the Academy's OCIS division) |
| 3. | In their striving to learn about information technology (IT) innovations, organizations draw on knowledge resources available in the diverse organizational communities that converge around those innovations. But even as such organizations learn about an innovation, so too does the larger community. (with Neil C. Ramiller, presented at ICIS 2004) |
| 4. | The abundance of innovative concepts in the world of Information Technology and their differentiated influence on the design, production, and use of IT in organizations make one wonder what shapes these concepts themselves. Taking the perspective that an IT innovation concept evolves beyond the boundaries of particular organizations as an organizing vision, here I have studied one aspect of the evolution, what makes a concept popular? (presented at ICIS 2001) |
| 5. | A case study of Business Week’s special advertising section, used in 2000-04 to exploit and sustain the momentum of Customer Relationship Management-CRM (with E. Burton Swanson) |
| 6. | A review and synthesis of institutional theories of information technologies (with Wendy Currie) |
| eINNOVATION Reading Group | |
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Joint us to discuss exemplar papers that apply (or inspire the application of) computational approaches to the studies of technological innovations. |
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Last updated April 19, 2008 |
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