Public E-Procurement and the Duality of Technology: A Comparative Study in the Context of Brazil and Paraíba

Mota, Flávio Perazzo Barbosa; Filho, José Rodrigues

doi:10.4301/s1807-17752011000200003

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“…Sjöberg (2013) contributes to an understanding of issues and factors that might influence individuals and organizations in their use of, and capabilities to adapt and create, a "new sense" of social media networks. The study by Mota and Rodrigues Filho (2011) evidences how e-procurement is a subjective element, sometimes understood inconsistently by human agents in different organizational contexts. Users appropriate the rules, knowledge and assumptions into the new system to perform certain tasks affirming to the status quo.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkthe Duality Of Technologymentioning

confidence: 92%

Mobile banking in the government-to-person payment sector for financial inclusion in Pakistan

Kemal

2018

Information Technology for Development

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Whilst there have been growing interest and efforts by governments in developing countries to disburse digital government-to-person (G2P) payments to promote financial inclusion, the role of mobile banking in the receipt of social cash remains under-researched. Through an interpretive case study of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Pakistan, this paper applies Orlikowski's Duality of Technology that critically examines mobile banking usage by women beneficiaries and technology's effects on the institutional properties of their households. Qualitative data were collected through semistructured interviews from participants located in Pakistan. The findings highlighted that mobile banking enabled women to receive the full amount of grants, securely and conveniently, from agents. However, mobile banking imposed human, socioeconomic and technological constraints which restricted women's access to and usage of financial services that limited financial inclusion. Women were socially and politically empowered, thereby, social inclusion was transformative. This paper theoretically contributes to the Duality of Technology framework that was deterministic for women beneficiaries. The study accentuates the redesign of mobile banking to match women's capabilities, and imparting financial and digital training to them. Also, the provision of a range of financial resources to beneficiaries may steer micro-entrepreneurial activities to advance the inclusion agenda in Pakistan.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkthe Duality Of Technologymentioning

confidence: 92%

Mobile banking in the government-to-person payment sector for financial inclusion in Pakistan

Kemal

2018

Information Technology for Development

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“…Worldwide e-procurement implementation initiatives have been undertaken in the public sector on a large scale (Henriksen and Mahnke, 2005;Somasundaram and Damsgaard, 2005;Vaidya, 2007;Mota and Filho, 2011) as government procurement represents 18.42% of the world GDP. E-procurement is used by government agencies and other actors of procurement community in conducting activities of the government procurement process cycle (GPPC) for the acquisition of goods, works, and consultancy services with enhanced efficiency in procurement management.…”

Section: E-procurement In the Public Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Public e-procurement impacts in small- and medium-enterprises

Fernandes

Vieira

2015

IJPM

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Abstract:The European Union (EU) created directives to regulate the moving to full Public e-Procurement (Pe-P) for all public purchases by 2016. Despite the undisputable benefits, member states are lagging behind on this paradigm shift. Also Pe-P's scholarly evaluation and theoretical knowledge behind it are still very limited. This paper makes a contribution to the literature gap related to Pe-P's impacts providing preliminary evidence of its adoption in Portugal. Following a case-based approach involving interviews with managers from the Portuguese construction sector, our study aims to understand Pe-P's implementation benefits and barriers in small-and medium-enterprises (SMEs). Results provide relevant information regarding factors affecting Pe-P's adoption forecasting implications for private firms, platform providers and policy makers in the 2016 full moving to Pe-P's throughout the EU.

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“…Thus, "the interaction of technology and organizations is a function of the different actors and socio-historical contexts implied in its development and use" (Orlikowski, 1992, p. 405). This emphasizes that technology is not merely a physical object but also a means for human action that produces and reproduces current organizational practices as it interacts with institutional properties (Mota & Filho, 2011). This means that technology, or in this case, open government data, is physically built by its designer, the government working in a given social context, but also socially built by both the government and the users "through the different meanings they attach to it and the various features they emphasize and use" (Orlikowski, 1992, p. 406).…”

Section: Open Government Data: Its Implementers and Its Usersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open Governance and Duality of Technology: The open data designer-user disconnect in the Philippines

Cruz

Lee²

2019

JeDEM

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This paper builds on the data designer (government) and local data-user concepts in terms of “technological duality.” This model applies Orlikowski’s structurational model of technology that extends basic ideas about interactions of organizations and information communication technology (ICT). The model is supported by its application to multiple interpretative case studies of the Philippine Open Government initiative. It was evidenced that open government data as a technology is subjective—understood and interpreted inconsistently by the government and data users and therefore creates a disconnect between them. Based on the cases presented, it is proposed that a two-way open governance model will be a more effective approach in developing a truly open government. This reinforces the role of user-side stakeholders as they have the interest, expertise, and resources to utilize open data and can therefore build networks with more users within their respective fields that government initiatives may not be able to reach.

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Public E-Procurement and the Duality of Technology: A Comparative Study in the Context of Brazil and Paraíba

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Mobile banking in the government-to-person payment sector for financial inclusion in Pakistan

Mobile banking in the government-to-person payment sector for financial inclusion in Pakistan

Public e-procurement impacts in small- and medium-enterprises

Open Governance and Duality of Technology: The open data designer-user disconnect in the Philippines

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