Mapping implemented strategies of bringing Internet-based software applications to market using storytelling research methods

Pattinson, HM

Mapping implemented strategies of bringing Internet-based software applications to market using storytelling research methods

Pattinson, HM

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Pattinson, HM
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-29T03:54:25Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-29T03:54:25Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37359
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Business.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The research offers an advanced hermeneutic framework for the study of B2B decision-making processes for software application development. The proposal builds dynamic sensemaking elements onto existing hermeneutic analysis frameworks used in marketing research (Arnold & Fisher 1994; Thompson Pollio & Locander 1994; Thompson 1997). The “hermeneutic circle” is extended to a multilevel “hermeneutic system” starting with written accounts of the decision-making associated with the development and delivery of new software applications – these accounts are then revisited (Langley et al. 1995) through multiple rounds of etic and emic interpretation. An extended form of marketing Decision Systems Analysis (DSA) that complements the advanced hermeneutic analysis framework is also proposed and applied, building on existing B2B Marketing DSA (Hulbert, Farley & Howard 1972; Woodside & Samuel 1981; Woodside 1994; Woodside & Voss 1999) with extended DSA Models, events chronology maps, and cognitive maps. The proposed framework and supporting analysis are applied to six application software houses that created new Internet-based software applications which were either disruptive (Christensen 2003) or supporting disruptive software applications. Findings from six case studies suggest that the hermeneutic research framework proposals provide a strong systematic platform for analysing and interpreting decision-making with deep prospective, introspective, retrospective, and with imaginatively unbounded current and future perspectives. Individual case-study and cross-case findings were incorporated into a set of new and revised theory propositions for software application developer Structuration at individual, firm (including multi-firm) and industry levels. The propositions provide a base of knowledge for the further development of a cognitive view of a software application development firm.	en_US
dc.format	Thesis (PhD)	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/37359/2/02whole.pdf
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
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dc.subject	B2B decision-making processes .	en
dc.subject	"Hermeneutic system".	en
dc.subject	Mapping.	en
dc.subject	Decision Systems Analysis (DSA).	en
dc.subject	Software application development firm.	en
dc.title	Mapping implemented strategies of bringing Internet-based software applications to market using storytelling research methods	en_US
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

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The research offers an advanced hermeneutic framework for the study of B2B decision-making processes for software application development. The proposal builds dynamic sensemaking elements onto existing hermeneutic analysis frameworks used in marketing research (Arnold & Fisher 1994; Thompson Pollio & Locander 1994; Thompson 1997). The “hermeneutic circle” is extended to a multilevel “hermeneutic system” starting with written accounts of the decision-making associated with the development and delivery of new software applications – these accounts are then revisited (Langley et al. 1995) through multiple rounds of etic and emic interpretation. An extended form of marketing Decision Systems Analysis (DSA) that complements the advanced hermeneutic analysis framework is also proposed and applied, building on existing B2B Marketing DSA (Hulbert, Farley & Howard 1972; Woodside & Samuel 1981; Woodside 1994; Woodside & Voss 1999) with extended DSA Models, events chronology maps, and cognitive maps. The proposed framework and supporting analysis are applied to six application software houses that created new Internet-based software applications which were either disruptive (Christensen 2003) or supporting disruptive software applications. Findings from six case studies suggest that the hermeneutic research framework proposals provide a strong systematic platform for analysing and interpreting decision-making with deep prospective, introspective, retrospective, and with imaginatively unbounded current and future perspectives. Individual case-study and cross-case findings were incorporated into a set of new and revised theory propositions for software application developer Structuration at individual, firm (including multi-firm) and industry levels. The propositions provide a base of knowledge for the further development of a cognitive view of a software application development firm.

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