A Framework for Culturally Influenced Information Systems Management

Xu, Feng

doi:10.1002/j.1681-4835.2006.tb00147.x

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“…The cultural distinctions at the national or social level may be expected to exert a significant influence on the management of IT and IS (Davison and Martinsons, 2003). This means that national cultural differences might influence IS implementation and use by impacting people who are involved in each of the stages of IS implementation and use (Feng, 2006).…”

Section: Cultural Theoretical Framework Of Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

A situated cultural approach for cross‐cultural studies in IS

Ali

Brooks

2009

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

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Cultural anthropology seeks to understand the similarities and differences among groups of people in the contemporary world. Although there are many different models of national culture, most IS research has tended to rely almost solely on Hofstede's cultural model (Keil et al., 2000;Straub, 1994;Tan et al., 1995;Watson et al., 1994; Myers and Tan, 2002;Kirkman et al. 2006).). This paper, provides a comprehensive framework of situated culture approach to study culture within IS discipline. This is achieved via an articulation of Structuration Theory and the provision of an approach to study cross-cultural phenomena within IS discipline. The paper proposes two main components of the Structuration Theory based analysis model which is proposed as a way to study culture within IS discipline. First, the paper presents ideas behind the practice lens for studying the use of technology, as proposed by Orlikowski (2000). Secondly, the paper presents a Structurational analysis approach as detailed by Walsham (2002). The paper argues that using a practice lens contributes to identifying the mediated shared structures between actors through understanding the actions of the actors within the phenomena. Then, using a Structurational analysis approach contributes to identifying the cultural dimensions that are embedded in the identified mediated shared structures.

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Section: Cultural Theoretical Framework Of Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

A situated cultural approach for cross‐cultural studies in IS

Ali

Brooks

2009

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

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“…Initiatives in a developing, post conflict region adds both technical and behavioural complications to an already complicated process (Feng, 2006). Stapleton (2011) states that post-conflict regions pose unique and complex issues in developmental lCT initiatives which impact on the success or failure of implementation and adoption, and need to be explored further.…”

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Symbols of Hope: A Case Study of Telemedicine Projects in Post Conflict Regions

Kealy¹,

Stapleton²

2012

Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research

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This paper describes a grounded theory study of a telemedicine centre in a post-conflict region. Rich studies of Developmental lCT initiatives in developing countries generally are rare, and almost non-existent for post-conflict developing regions. The post-conflict context loads additional factors into an already complicated systems development process. The primary contribution of this paper is to set out factors present in the case organization which have received little attention previously and which were important in the successful implementation of a large scale telemedicine system in the Balkans. What emerges from this study is the symbolic nature ofthe project as one ofthe main factors which influence success. This has implications for our understanding of the dynamics of developmental lCT initiatives generally and in postconflict, developing regions in particular.

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