Conceptualizing and Theorizing about IT-Enabled Services -- Exploring the Diversity of Service Worlds in the Service Economy -- ICTs and Global Working in a Non-Flat World -- Exploring the Influence of Socio-Emotional Factors on Knowledge Management Practices: A Case Study -- Compliance-as-a-Service in Information Technology Manufacturing Organizations: An Exploratory Case Study -- Service System Innovation -- Rhizomatic Informatics: The Case of Ivy University -- The Influence of Subgroup Dynamics on Knowledge Coordination in Distributed Software Development Teams: A Transactive Memory System and Group Faultline Perspective -- The Service Behind the Service: Sensegiving in the Service Economy -- IT-Enabled Services in Industry Settings -- Possibilities and Challenges of Transition to Ambulant Health Service Delivery with ICT Support in Psychiatry -- Transforming Work Practices in a Complex Environment -- Virtuality and Non-Virtuality in Remote Stock Trading -- Bazaar by Design: Managing Interfirm Exchanges in an Open Source Service Network -- Emerging Technologies in the Service Sector: An Early Exploration of Item-Level RFID on the Fashion Sales Floor -- The Computerization of Service: Evidence of Information and Communication Technologies in Real Estate -- IT-Enabled Change in Public Sector Services -- E-Government and Changes in the Public Sector: The Case of Greece -- Bandwithing Together: Municipalities as Service Providers in a Policy Environment -- Analyzing Public Open Source Policy: The Case Study of Venezuela -- Co-Orienting the Object: An Activity-Theoretical Analysis of the UK’s National Program for Information Technology -- A Multivocal and Multilevel Institutionalist Perspective to Analyze Information Technology-Enabled Change in the Public Service in Africa -- Outsourcing and Globalization of IT Services -- Legitimacy Management and Trust in Offshoring Information Technology Services -- Information Technology Outsourcing in the Service Economy: Client Maturity and Knowledge/Power Asymmetries -- How Information Systems Providers Develop and Manage Expertise and Leverage Their Client Relationships for Competitive Advantage -- Mind the Gap! Understanding Knowledge in Global Software Teams -- Complicating Utopian and Dystopian Views of Automation: An Investigation of the Work and Knowledge Involved in the Call Center Offshoring Industry in India -- Panels -- Turning Products into Services and Services into Products: Contradictory Implications of Information Technology in the Service Economy -- Information Systems and the Service Economy: A Multidimensional Perspective -- The Servicitization of Peer Production: Reflections on the Open Source Software Experience -- eHealth: Redefining Health Care in the Light of Technology -- Workshop Paper Contributions -- The Information Services View -- An Epistemology of Organizational Emergence: The Tripartite Domains of Organizational Discourse and the Servitization of IBM -- Organizational Learning in Health Care: Situating Free and Open Source Software -- Understanding the Exchange Intention of an Individual Blogger -- Toward Understanding the Capability Cycle of Software Process Improvement: A Case Study of a Software Service Company -- A Case Study Approach to Examining Service Information Requirements.

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