出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：Given monumental events including the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as well as the Enron and MCI Worldcom debacles, people have witnessed, and more readily accepted, a significant increase in governmental authority, leading to a dramatic upsurge in the number of governmental regulations imposed on business organizations and society. This manuscript presents an analysis for understanding the implications --both technical and managerial --of such regulations on the IT industry. Using neo institutional theory as a theoretical basis, this manuscript examines the repercussions of governmental regulations, which have become strong institutional forces, on the IT industry. The analysis suggests that such significant institutional forces may gravitate an otherwise highly disparate IT industry towards industry wide homogenization. Three examples of published case studies are used to demonstrate the impact of the regulations on the IT industry
