Research Projects
The Social Study of the Information Technology Marketplace
This is a new research project which has as its aim to build a programme of work and a research community to improve the state of theory and knowledge in relation to how various and forms of specialist ‘industry analysts’ are organising the information technology (IT) marketplace.
The Biography and Evolution of Standardised Software Packages
This is a recently completed research project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which was a comparative and sociological study of the development, use and evolution of standardised computer systems and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages.
The Network Enterprise: the Shaping of Institutions & Standards in E-Business


