Politics, public servants, and profits: Institutional complexity and temporary hybridization in a public infrastructure alliance project

Matinheikki, Juri; Aaltonen, Kirsi; Walker, Derek H.T.

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.07.004

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“…However, getting the departmental approval for BES-III proved to be a difficult job due to prevailing economic environment. Thus, the pre-implementation phase demonstrates the politically contested and negotiated nature of the acquisition process (Matinheikki et al, 2019;Moe et al, 2017) in the public sector. A second administrative control for the acquisition process is the public tendering process.…”

Section: Behaviour Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, the findings support the notion of the steering group as an effective behavioural control mechanism (Loonam, McDonagh, Kumar, & O'Regan, 2014;Sumner, 2018) for enterprise systems implementation. Case evidence also suggests that such temporary hybridisation (Matinheikki et al, 2019) of including the vendor in the steering group (Choudhury & Sabherwal, 2003) helps in early resolution of implementation problems. This also reflects the teleological learning (Van de Ven & Poole, 1995;Wiener et al, 2016) from earlier projects when the vendor was not part of the steering group.…”

Section: Behaviour Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Information systems (IS) projects are usually complex, unpredictable, and are prone to time and cost overruns (Bhoola, Hiremath, & Mallik, 2014). Moreover, evidence suggests that context plays a major role in the planning, procurement, and implementation of IS projects (Berente, Lyytinen, Yoo, & Maurer, 2019;Matinheikki, Aaltonen, & Walker, 2019;Moe, Newman, & Sein, 2017). This is especially true for healthcare organisations where complex institutional logics (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Evolving Nature of Information Systems Controls in Healthcare Organisations

Saxena

McDonagh

2020

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Information Systems (IS) projects are found to be complex, unpredictable, and prone to time and cost overruns. Perhaps that is why organisations put a strong focus on IS controls during the planning and execution of such projects.IS control literature in the past has focussed on dyadic control relationships during an outsourced IS development project and relatively little is known about such controls during a complex enterprise systems project. Existing studies usually take a static view of IS controls and do not investigate how controls evolve during different phases of the system lifecycle, as well as across projects. This study presents a processual view of IS controls in the enterprise systems lifecycle in a national blood processing organisation. Traditional research in a blood banking context has focussed on optimising the process of blood collection, inventory management, and distribution with relatively limited attention to the implementation of the supporting information systems. This research focusses on the evolution of control based on a study of three enterprise system implementation projects in the case organisation. The study demonstrates that while all five control modes (input, outcome, behaviour, clan, and self-control) are applied across the phases of enterprise systems projects, the nature and extent of control mechanisms changes across the phases of the enterprise system lifecycle. The findings also suggest a teleological evolution of a project’s control portfolio in which the portfolio evolves based on adaptive learning processes from earlier projects. Finally, by exhibiting the influence of institutional and market context, this study also underlines the multi-stakeholder and contextual nature of enterprise systems implementation and associated controls in health service organisations.

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Section: Behaviour Controlmentioning

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Section: Behaviour Controlmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Evolving Nature of Information Systems Controls in Healthcare Organisations

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2020

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“…It is believed that the one who owns the information, certainly owns the world. The most important component of information for decisionmaking in the field of competitiveness is information about the behaviour of competitors and their competitive positions [10]. Information system of the enterprise, with the help of which the enterprise solves the arising problems, namely it time, costs of collecting, processing, updating and storing information in this system require significant material, monetary and labour costs.…”

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Economic and mathematical methods for assessing expertise of specialists of enterprises

Сухорукова¹,

Fomin²

2019

Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Practical Conference "The Individual and Society in the Modern Geopolitical Env

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The article is devoted to the development of a mechanism for adapting specialists of industrial institutions, ensuring their competitiveness and leadership in the field of management. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the development of an adaptive system for the development of specialists to ensure the competitiveness of enterprises in order to improve the quality of the workforce for employers and to create effective intelligent management technologies. To conduct the study, a systematic approach was chosen and a comparative analysis of the directions of the research of Russian and European economists in the field of human capital was used. The economic and mathematical methods proposed by us for assessing the competitiveness of specialists at enterprises contribute to the replenishment of the labour market by professionals who possess the most up-to-date competences in their work activities and who are seeking to improve their skills.

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“…Moreover, [46,47] also emphasized the importance of the management of material, labor, and suppliers. The study describes a system through which the project planning and controlling strategies, resource market, competition advantage (technologies and relationships) and expertise or experience of project professionals are combined in the project alliance organization [48].…”

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Structural Equation Model for Investigating the Causal Relationships Between Project Complexities and Project Cost: An Empirical Study from New Zealand

Zhao¹,

Zhang²

2019

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Project complexity is usually considered as one of main causes of cost overruns, resulting in poor performance and thus project failure. However, empirical studies focused on evaluating its effects on project cost remain lacking. Given this circumstance, this study attempts to develop the relationships between project cost and the multidimensional project complexity elements. We establish complexity as a multidimensional factor including the task, organization, market, legal, and environment complexities. This study uses an empirical evidence-based structural model to account for the relationships between project cost and project complexity. By doing so, a quantitative assessment of multi-dimensional project complexity has been developed. The findings suggest that task and organization complexities have direct effects on project cost, while market, legal and external environment complexities have indirect effects on project cost. The practical contribution is that the findings can improve the understanding of which dimension of complexity significantly influence project cost, and the need to focus efforts on strategically addressing that complexities.

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Politics, public servants, and profits: Institutional complexity and temporary hybridization in a public infrastructure alliance project

Cited by 84 publications

References 200 publications

The Evolving Nature of Information Systems Controls in Healthcare Organisations

The Evolving Nature of Information Systems Controls in Healthcare Organisations

Economic and mathematical methods for assessing expertise of specialists of enterprises

Structural Equation Model for Investigating the Causal Relationships Between Project Complexities and Project Cost: An Empirical Study from New Zealand

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