1. ¹University of Jyväskylä, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, PO Box 35, FIN-40014, Finland
2. ²Agder University College, Department of Information Systems, PO Box 422, 4604, Kristiansand, Norway
3. ³University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3G6, Canada
4. ⁴University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, PO Box 3000, FIN-90014, Finland

⁵On leave from University of Jyväskylä, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Finland

Abstract

Innovations in network technologies in the 1990's have provided new ways to store and organize information to be shared by people and various information systems. The term Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has been widely adopted by software product vendors and practitioners to refer to technologies used to manage the content of assets like documents, web sites, intranets, and extranets In organizational or inter-organizational contexts. Despite this practical interest ECM has received only little attention in the information systems research community. This editorial argues that ECM provides an important and complex subfield of Information Systems. It provides a framework to stimulate and guide future research, and outlines research issues specific to the field of ECM.