Acceptance and Leadership--Hegemonies of E-Commerce Policy Perspectives

Corbitt, Brian; Thanasankit, Theerasak

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“…Power may be exercised in a number of ways including decision making, agenda setting and in the shaping of felt needs [5,6,19,24,25,30]. Power can be exercised through political communication-information presentation and misrepresentation, interpretation and misinterpretation, manipulation and withholding of information.…”

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“…Power creates and is created by organisational attributes, social or cultural attributes and individual attributes. Recently, Corbitt and Thanasankit [6] suggest the notation of hegemony to understand power in terms of leadership and acceptance, particularly in the context of national culture. Peszynski and Corbitt [28] argue that power and hegemony change and are changed.…”

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Power relations in virtual communities: An ethnographic study

Nguyen

Torlina

Peszynski

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Electron Commerce Res

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Peoples' need to socialize with others and greed for power can be best captured with Aristotle's description of human beings as "political animals"/"social animals." This paper reports on observations of how cyber communities, such as Web-based forums and mailing lists, manifest themselves through social interactions and shared values, membership and friendship, and commitments and loyalty. The paper highlights the importance of power relations in these communities, how they are formed, exercised and evolve. This paper explores power relations as they emerge in two online Vietnamese communities and suggests a new understanding of the formation and evolution of power in virtual societies.

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Power relations in virtual communities: An ethnographic study

Nguyen

Torlina

Peszynski

et al. 2006

Electron Commerce Res

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“…The specific policy that had most affect in this story of systems implementation was the institutionalization of the Online Technologies in Courses and Units policy, which required all units to have an online presence on EducateMe International. With policy comes the expectation of compliance (Ball, 1990;Corbitt, 1995Corbitt, , 1997Corbitt & Thanasankit, 2002). Once the policy was enacted, there were no exceptions, ensuring that the new enterprise-wide LMS was going to be used.…”

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Politics, Complexity, and Systems Implementation

Peszynski

Corbitt

2006

Social Science Computer Review

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This article identifies the role of power and politics in systems implementation under a critical epistemology. Research in information systems has typically adopted a positivist or interpretive approach. This article highlights the use of the critical epistemology, providing a case study exploring the power and politics in the systems implementation process. Previous implementation studies that have investigated human and political factors involved in systems implementation have taken a simplistic view of power and politics. A critical, poststructuralist view of power provides a lens for observing the selection and implementation of an enterprise-wide learning management system. Such an approach has important implications for research methods as the critical epistemology needed is challenged by acceptance of bias and the need to expose it as an important factor in explaining success and/or failure in systems implementation. This article illustrates how useful a critical approach is in seeking out the real impact of power and politics in systems implementation and offers an alternative perspective that provides more insight into the observed process.T his article addresses the impact of power, coalitions, conflict, and political ramifications of diverse, interest-driven groups in an organization on the implementation of a complex organization-wide system. The nature of the problem partially determines why a researcher should select a particular methodology and epistemology (Creswell, 1994). There has been a tradition in the information systems discipline that if one selects a quantitative approach for one's research, then one is automatically adopting a positivist approach. Similarly, if one adopts a qualitative approach, then one is adopting an interpretive approach (Chua, 1986). This approach, arguably, is simplistic in nature, and often there are more factors that affect the epistemology the researcher adopts (Klein & Myers, 1999;Orlikowski & Baroudi, 1991). This article aims to illustrate the usefulness of a critical approach in the information systems discipline and provide a case supporting the use of the critical epistemology in the implementation of a learning management system (LMS) in Newlands University.According to Kincheloe and McLaren (2000), critical researchers are concerned with "issues of power and justice and the ways that the economy, matters of race, class and gender, ideologies, discourses, education and other social institutions, and cultural dynamics interact to construct a social system" (p.

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“…When stakeholders possess all three attributes (as is the case with senior clinicians in healthcare organizations like Alpha) they become very influential stakeholders. This influence is noticeable in a number of ways including agenda setting, decision making and in the shaping of felt needs [14,16,27,32,44,57]. Increasing use of the Internet, intranets and computer networks to facilitate communication, cooperation and collaboration (see Sect.…”

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IT governance challenges in a large not-for-profit healthcare organization: The role of intranets

Wilkin

Riddett²

2009

Electron Commer Res

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This paper reports on the implementation of IT governance in a not-forprofit healthcare organization and considers how managerial strategies for this governance relate to the progressive management approach commonly called the Horizontal Organization. Discussion includes how IT governance was implemented and the mechanisms by which power and politics in the organization were harnessed to achieve strategic goals. In this case study, CEO support for IT governance was related principally to the need for fiscal accountability regarding IT investment aligned to the strategic goals of the organization. The case study showed real organizational gains in achieving best value for the investment dollar, accountable time-frames and cost-controls. The move enhanced the professional status of the IT Department, including more widespread acknowledgement for fairness and equity in its processes, an outcome commonly associated with horizontal management structures.

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Acceptance and Leadership--Hegemonies of E-Commerce Policy Perspectives

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

Power relations in virtual communities: An ethnographic study

Power relations in virtual communities: An ethnographic study

Politics, Complexity, and Systems Implementation

IT governance challenges in a large not-for-profit healthcare organization: The role of intranets

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