... documents and introduces the four articles in the special issue. Findings Genre can be studied based on intrinsic genre attributes or on the extrinsic function that genre fulfills in human activities. Studies on intrinsic attributes include classifications of genres as clusters of attributes, though...

...Kristin Eschenfelder This paper takes a social shaping of technology approach to identify and explain sources of conflict in the design or enhancement of corporate Web sites. Data from a multi‐case field study show how Web site classification schemes embedded in Web site design elements created...

...,classification and strategic changes. Since there are papers going into great detail on this matter, the discussion on the nature of exceptions presented here is only an overview of the phenomenon. For further details, please refer especially to Saastamoinen (1995) . Other papers (Auramäki and Leppänen, 1989...