While the interest in OL started ha

While the interest in OL started half a century ago, it is
mainly during the past few years that the concept receives
widespread attention. A bibliographic [ 151 shows for example
that as many academic papers on OL were published
in 1993 as in the whole decade of the 1980’s. This
rise in popularity has also taken place within the IS discipline.
Recently, a growing number of articles have been
published dealing with the relationship between IS’s and
OL (see for example the special issue of Accountancy,
Management, and Information Technology on IS and
OL)