Steve Sawyer
American systems scientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Steven Burton Sawyer is a professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. He is known for his research on social and organizational informatics, how people work together and how they use technology, and the relationships among changing forms of work & organization. Sawyer has worked on improving the social components of teamwork, as well as the distinctions between packaged and custom software development. His research is done through field-based studies of software developers, scientific collaborators, scientific data repositories, real estate agents, police officers, organizational technologists, and similar information-intensive work settings.
Steve Sawyer 's Published Works
Published Works
- Software Development: Processes and Performance (1998) (169)
- Packaged software: implications of the differences from custom approaches to software development (2000) (157)
- A market-based perspective on information systems development (2001) (149)
- Packaged software development teams: what makes them different? (1998) (144)
- Social Technologies, Informal Knowledge Practices, and the Enterprise (2013) (139)
- Broadband and mobile opportunities: a socio-technical perspective (2003) (122)
- Social informatics: Perspectives, examples, and trends (2005) (108)
- Social Informatics in the Information Sciences: Current Activities and Emerging Directions (2000) (108)
- Effects of intra‐group conflict on packaged software development team performance (2001) (104)
- Surfing the Next Wave: Design and Implementation Challenges of Ubiquitous Computing (2004) (101)
- Sociotechnical Approaches to the Study of Information Systems (2014) (97)
- Social interactions of information systems development teams: a performance perspective (2010) (89)
- Software development teams (2004) (84)
- The Sociotechnical Nature of Mobile Computing Work: Evidence from a Study of Policing in the United State (2005) (84)
- Platformic Management, Boundary Resources for Gig Work, and Worker Autonomy (2019) (73)
- Temporal Issues in Information and Communication Technology-Enabled Organizational Change: Evidence From an Enterprise Systems Implementation (2002) (73)
- Investigating the interplay between structure and information and communications technology in the real estate industry (2001) (73)
- Intellectual diversity and the faculty composition of iSchools (2012) (66)
- Mobility and the first responder (2004) (63)
- The Effective Use of Automated Application Development Tools (1997) (60)
- Supporting the social processes of software development (1997) (58)
- Analysis by long walk: some approaches to the synthesis of multiple sources of evidence (2001) (54)
- Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics: A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies (2005) (53)
- Distancing Bonus Or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of Us Online Workers in Times of COVID‐19 (2020) (50)
- Social informatics: Overview, principles and opportunities (2006) (49)
- On extending social informatics from a rich legacy of networks and conceptual resources (2005) (45)
- The formation of inter-organizational information sharing networks in public safety: Cartographic insights on rational choice and institutional explanations (2009) (45)
- A Social Informatics Perspective on Socio-Technical Networks (2000) (43)
- Requirements engineering blinders: exploring information systems developers’ black-boxing of the emergent character of requirements (2011) (42)
- The Social Embeddedness of Transactions: Evidence from the Residential Real-Estate Industry (2003) (39)
- From Findings to Theories: Institutionalizing Social Informatics (2007) (37)
- The distribution of computing: the knowledge markets of distributed technical support specialists (1998) (36)
- Conceptualizing time, space and computing for work and organizing (2010) (35)
- Personalization of knowledge, personal knowledge ecology, and digital nomadism (2019) (35)
- Locating packaged software in information systems research (2007) (34)
- Redefining access: uses and roles of information and communication technologies in the US residential real estate industry from 1995 to 2005 (2005) (31)
- Digital Assemblages: Evidence and Theorising from the Computerisation of the US Residential Real Estate Industry (2014) (31)
- Theorizing on the take‐up of social technologies, organizational policies and norms, and consultants' knowledge‐sharing practices (2015) (30)
- digitalSTS: A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies (2019) (30)
- ERP Implementation Teams, Consultants, and Information Sharing (2001) (27)
- Always Articulating: Theorizing on Mobile and Wireless Technologies (2006) (26)
- Social Informatics: Principles, Theory, and Practice (2006) (25)
- Conceptualizing Time and Space: Information Technology, Work, and Organization (2002) (25)
- Special issue on futures for research on information systems: prometheus unbound? (2011) (24)
- Conceptualizing information, technology, and people: Comparing information science and information systems literatures (2007) (24)
- Information Systems in Organizations and Society: Speculating on the Next 25 Years of Research (2004) (22)
- Municipal Police Departments on Facebook: What Are They Posting and Are People Engaging? (2016) (22)
- Design observations for interagency collaboration (2014) (22)
- Conceptualizing Information Technology in the Study of Information Systems: Trends and Issues (2002) (21)
- Membership Has its Privileges? Contracting and Access to Jobs That Accommodate Work-Life Needs (2011) (21)
- Data Wealth, Data Poverty, Science and Cyberinfrastructure 1 (2008) (20)
- Knowledge Markets : Cooperation Among Distributed Technical Specialists (2001) (18)
- IT skills in the context of BigCo. (1998) (18)
- ICT in the real estate industry: Agents and social capital (1999) (18)
- Coporate IT skill needs: a case study of BigCo. (1998) (17)
- Exploring enterprise social systems & organisational change: implementation in a digital age (2016) (17)
- Social scientists and cyberinfrastructure: insights from a document perspective (2012) (16)
- Studying Organizational Computing Infrastructures: Multi-method Approaches (2000) (15)
- Governance configurations for inter-organizational coordination: A study of public safety networks (2018) (15)
- Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy (2010) (13)
- Social networking technologies and organizational knowledge sharing as a sociotechnical ecology (2012) (13)
- Transitioning to client/server: using a temporal framework to study organizational change (1997) (13)
- The social informatics of knowledge (2019) (13)
- Data Rich and Data Poor Scholarship: Where Does IS Research Stand? (2007) (12)
- Gender and IT Professionals in the United States: A Survey of College Graduates (2006) (12)
- Flexible work and personal digital infrastructures (2021) (11)
- Pennsylvania's transition to enterprise computing as a study in strategic alignment (2008) (11)
- Beliefs about Computing: Contrary Evidence from a Study of Mobile Computing Use among Criminal Justice Personnel (2005) (11)
- Implementing Client-Server: Issues from the Field (1996) (10)
- Documenting work: From participant observation to participant tracing (2015) (10)
- Advancing Social Informatics (2014) (10)
- A taxonomy for public safety networks (2007) (9)
- Organic development: a top-down and bottom-up approach to design of public sector information systems (2006) (9)
- Managing the Human Side of Information Technology: Challenges and Solutions, edited by Edward Szewczak and Coral Snodgrass. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2002. xiii + 351 pp. $59.95. ISBN 1-931777-74-8 (2004) (9)
- Networks of innovation: the sociotechnical assemblage of tabletop computing (2019) (8)
- Critical Views of Organization, Management, and Information Technology: Applying Critical Social Theory to Information System Research (1999) (8)
- U.S. public safety networks: Architectural patterns and performance (2013) (8)
- The Digital Divide and Information Systems Research: Stepping Up or Stepping Away? (2004) (7)
- A Social Analysis of Software Development Teams: Three Models and their Differences (2000) (7)
- Deploying distributed computing: parking gets a new system (2000) (7)
- Information and Communication Technologies in the Real Estate Industry: Results of a Pilot Survey (2001) (7)
- Methods as Theories: Evidence and Arguments for Theorizing on Software Development (2006) (6)
- Web Information Systems Management: Proactive or Reactive Emergence (2001) (6)
- Integrated criminal justice: ARJIS case study (2006) (6)
- Designing Collaborative Networds: Lessons Learned from Public Safety (2007) (5)
- How do information and communication technologies reshape work? Evidence from the residential real estate industry (2000) (5)
- Constructing, deconstructing and negotiating the boundaries of digital cultures (2011) (5)
- Gender Differences and Lost Flexibility in Online Freelancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (5)
- Using Problems to Learn Service-Oriented Computing (2008) (5)
- Freelancing Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020) (4)
- Patterns of Governance among Inter-organizational Coordination Hubs (2015) (4)
- New Words and Old Books: Challenging Conventional Discourses about Domain and Theory in Information Systems Research (2002) (4)
- Technological Innovation in Public Organizations through Digital Government (2007) (4)
- Integrated criminal justice systems: designing effective systems for inter-organizational action (2005) (4)
- Editorial: Broadband Internet and Electronic Commerce (2003) (4)
- Social scientists, documents and cyberinfrastructure: the cobbler's children or the missing masses? (2011) (4)
- Infrastructuring as Bricolage: Thinking Like a Contemporary Knowledge Worker (2019) (4)
- Design observations regarding public safety networks (2011) (4)
- Platform-mediated Markets, Online Freelance Workers and Deconstructed Identities (2022) (4)
- Social Networks and the Success of Market Intermediaries: Evidence From the U.S. Residential Real Estate Industry (2015) (4)
- Sawyer , S . and Southwick , R . , ( 1996 ) " Implementing Client-Server : Issues from the Field , " in The International Office of the Future (2000) (4)
- The Social Shaping of Technology (2001) (4)
- Mapping theory to practice: a cartographic analysis of public safety networks (2008) (3)
- New futures of work or continued marginalization? The rise of online freelance work and digital platforms (2022) (3)
- Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman, (2015), Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 224 pp, $24. (2016) (3)
- A Model of Information Resource Acquisition (1996) (3)
- Cooperation Among Technical Specialists in a Distributed Computing Environment (1996) (3)
- Design principles for public safety response mobilization (2006) (3)
- Document Practice as Insight to Digital Infrastructures of Distributed, Collaborative Social Scientists (2014) (3)
- Design in digital government research (2009) (3)
- What to Do with all those Traces People Leave behind: Computing, Culture, and (Bits of) Context? (2014) (3)
- Documents and distributed scientific collaboration (2014) (3)
- ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION (2002) (2)
- The Internet of Things. MercedesBunz and GrahamMeikle. New York: Polity/Digital Media and Society Press, 2018. 165 pp. $64.95 hardcover, $15.95 kindle, $21.53 (paperback). (ISBN‐13: 978‐1509517466) (2018) (2)
- The Internet of Things. Bunz, Mercedes and Meikle, Graham. New York: Polity/Digital Media and Society Press, 2018 (2019) (2)
- Turning Products into Services and Services into Products: Contradictory Implications of Information Technology in the Service Economy (2008) (2)
- Electronic Government Strategies and Research in the U.S (2005) (2)
- The ethos and pragmatics of data sharing (2014) (2)
- Flexibility, Occupation and Gender: Insights from a Panel Study of Online Freelancers (2022) (2)
- Team-Based Software Development Using an Electronic Meeting System: The QualityPay-off (1994) (2)
- I-Schools: Mice Roaring or the Future is Now Arriving? 1,2 (2008) (2)
- Five Perspectives on Women and Men in the IT Workforce (2006) (2)
- Integrated Criminal Justice System Design: Designing an Appropriate Governance Structure (2006) (2)
- Comparing internal and external interoperability of digital infrastructures (2016) (2)
- 1 Corporate IT Skill Needs : a Case Study of BigCo (2001) (2)
- Using Ethnography of Email to Understand Distributed Scientific Collaborations (2015) (2)
- The Computerization of Service: Evidence of Information and Communication Technologies in Real Estate (2008) (1)
- Using multiple methods in studying information systems (panel session): some experiences (1997) (1)
- Social informatics: Now and then (2013) (1)
- Locating packaged software in information systems research [Editorial] (2007) (1)
- Social Informatics and Consumer Health: Opportunities and Issues (2005) (1)
- Social Networking Technologies and Informal Knowledge Sharing in Organizations (2010) (1)
- The Uses and Abuses of Evaluative Criteria for Qualitative Research Methods (1999) (1)
- Special Issue of Journal of Information Technology (2002) (1)
- The Social Design of Information Systems (2011) (1)
- The Science of Socio-Technical Systems in iSchools (2009) (1)
- Architectural patterns of U.S. public safety networks: a fuzzy set qualitative comparison analysis (2012) (1)
- The Five-Dimensional Space of the Futures of Work: A View to 2030 (2020) (1)
- Contextuality and Information Systems: how the interplay between paradigms can help (2009) (1)
- Web IS Management Problems: Results from a Post-Implemenation Field Study (2000) (1)
- Digital assemblages, information infrastructures, and mobile knowledge work (2021) (1)
- Towards Friction-Free Work: A Multi-method Pilot Study of the Use of Information Technology In the Real-Estate Industry (2001) (1)
- Guest Editorial (2007) (1)
- Mobile Collaboration Literature and Analysis (2004) (1)
- Special Issue of Journal of Information Technology Broadband Internet and Electronic Commerce (2002) (1)
- The Dark Side of Information and Communication Technologies: The View from the Industry-Level of Analysis (2003) (1)
- What Do We Mean by Information Technology? Perspectives on Studying Computing (2001) (1)
- Social informatics of data norms (2016) (1)
- Panel: Interdisciplinary Paradigms for IS Education: The Information School (1999) (0)
- Was Thorstein Veblen a Revisionist Marxist? (2015) (0)
- The Influence of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Business Enterprise on the Economic Theories of Edward Chamberlin (2004) (0)
- Technology as Folklore: A Study of Change Through New Technology (1996) (0)
- Little eScience, Big eScience (2009) (0)
- Panel 7 Using Multiple Methods in Studying Information Systems: Some Experiences (1997) (0)
- ITP Research Form 2006 (2006) (0)
- Stabilizing Digital Infrastructures in Distributed Social Science Collaboration (2020) (0)
- Platforms and Planning: Pennsylvania's Transition to Enterprise Computing (2006) (0)
- Platform as Theoretical Framework Rather Than Just Empirical Context: How Information Science Scholars Examine Digital Platforms (2022) (0)
- The multi-dimensional space of the futures of work (2022) (0)
- Rules of the game: An interactive panel discussion about how institutions shape information (2018) (0)
- Americas Conference on Information Systems ( AMCIS ) December 1999 ICT in the real estate industry : Agents and social capital (2017) (0)
- Converging Technologies; Information Systems and Communication Studies:A Story of Separation and Reunion (2015) (0)
- Session details: Reflective research (2014) (0)
- The Distribution of Agency and Responsibility: A Comparative Analysis of Three Theoretical Perspectives Focused on Cloud Computing (2011) (0)
- Roberta Lamb, On the Way (2007) (0)
- Socio-technical structures in enterprise systems implementation: evidence from a five year study (2001) (0)
- E-Government: Contrasting Approaches and AlternativeInsights (2008) (0)
- Sociotechnical Approaches to Fieldwork and Trace Data Integration (2015) (0)
- Digital culture : blurred boundaries and ethical considerations (2009) (0)
- SOMEONE TELL THE USERS: A SOCIAL-STRUCTURE PERSPECTIVE OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION (2001) (0)
- A Social Analysis of Soft ware Development Teams: Thr ee Models and their Diffe rences (2000) (0)
- Information Technology-Enabled Innovation: A Critical Overview and Research Agenda (2007) (0)
- Digital Government: Technological Innovation in Public Organizations (2006) (0)
- Session for interaction and engagement: personal infrastructures of distributed scientific collaboration (2016) (0)
- High performing teams and support technology in software development (1995) (0)
- Sparking synergies between research and practice: The contribution of social informatics (2006) (0)
- Social Informatics and Consumer Health (2005) (0)
- THE SOCIOTECHNICAL NATURE OF MOBILE COMPUTING AND WORK : EVIDENCE FROM A STUDY OF POLICING IN THE UNITED STATES INTRODUCTION (2006) (0)
- Distributed work and client/server computing: issues from the field (1996) (0)
- Freelancing and Labor in the Digital Economy (2020) (0)
- 2001 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY : RESULTS OF A PILOT SURVEY 1 [ RESEARCH IN PROGRESS ] (2018) (0)
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