Factors Influencing the Adoption and Implementation of Organizational Intranets

Intranets or corporate information portals can have tremendous impacts on modern organizations. Today’s intranets are not just sources for publishing and posting internal documents and corporate policies, but instead are sources for knowledge management, work group collaboration, and on-line access to a multitude of other applications that support end-user tasks. Despite these impacts, there is a scarcity of research exploring intranet adoption and implementation. In this paper, we propose a framework that identifies several contextual antecedents of intranet adoption and implementation. An initial validation of the framework is provided through a case study that has implications for future research investigations.