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Wendy L Currie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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paradoxical effects of Institutionalisation on the strategic awareness of technology in organisations
Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2010Co-Authors: Joao Baptista, Sue Newell, Wendy L CurrieAbstract:Much of the IS literature focuses on the positive impacts of the Institutionalisation of IT in business routines; that is it assumes that it is good for IT to become embedded within an organisation. In this paper, however, we explore the 'dark side' of such Institutionalisation, demonstrating how a technology once institutionalised can become invisible to management so that its strategic potential is under-exploited while at the same time business risks associated with the IT are ignored. We demonstrate this through an in-depth longitudinal case study which follows the development of an intranet in a bank in the UK over a period of 5years. By following changes to the management of the intranet and its continuous embedding in work practices, the paper identifies six characteristics of institutionalised systems and highlights five risks for a business. The paper contributes to the literature in IS by exploring the impact for businesses from the apparent paradox between Institutionalisation and awareness of the strategic value of technology in organisations.
Joao Baptista - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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paradoxical effects of Institutionalisation on the strategic awareness of technology in organisations
Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2010Co-Authors: Joao Baptista, Sue Newell, Wendy L CurrieAbstract:Much of the IS literature focuses on the positive impacts of the Institutionalisation of IT in business routines; that is it assumes that it is good for IT to become embedded within an organisation. In this paper, however, we explore the 'dark side' of such Institutionalisation, demonstrating how a technology once institutionalised can become invisible to management so that its strategic potential is under-exploited while at the same time business risks associated with the IT are ignored. We demonstrate this through an in-depth longitudinal case study which follows the development of an intranet in a bank in the UK over a period of 5years. By following changes to the management of the intranet and its continuous embedding in work practices, the paper identifies six characteristics of institutionalised systems and highlights five risks for a business. The paper contributes to the literature in IS by exploring the impact for businesses from the apparent paradox between Institutionalisation and awareness of the strategic value of technology in organisations.
João Baptista (john) - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Institutionalisation as a process of interplay between technology and its organisational context of use
Journal of Information Technology, 2009Co-Authors: João Baptista (john)Abstract:This study contributes to the IS literature with a distinct explanation of the process of Institutionalisation of technology in organisations. The research analyses the role of micro-level processes of interplay in embedding an intranet in the formal functioning of an organisation and in the habits and routines of its employees. The findings identify two types of processes of interplay underpinning this process of Institutionalisation. The first operates at the level of constitutive expectations and refers to mutual changes to the governance, policy and control mechanisms which foster the perception that the intranet is part of the expected formal functioning of the organisation. The second operates at the level of background expectations and refers to mutual changes that make the intranet look more familiar, functional, easier to use, fostering its embedding in routines and habits of the employees. The study aims to motivate more research on Institutionalisation as a bottom-up micro process of gradual development of institutionalised behaviour.
Thomas Pedersen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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cooperative hegemony power ideas and institutions in regional integration
Review of International Studies, 2002Co-Authors: Thomas PedersenAbstract:For realists regionalism remains a difficult phenomenon to explicate. A particular puzzle for realists is why major states should want to pursue regional Institutionalisation. Nor are pluralist accounts satisfactory given the empirical evidence of state actor prominence in processes of regional Institutionalisation. This article sets out to account for the formative phase of regionalist endeavours, proposing an ideational–institutional realism as the basis for understanding regionalism. On this basis a specific theory of co-operative hegemony is developed. Stressing the importance of the grand strategies of major regional powers and their responses to the balance-of-threat in a region, the author argues that major states may advance their interests through non-coercive means by applying a strategy of co-operative hegemony which implies an active role in regional Institutionalisation and the use of, for instance, side payments, power-sharing and differentiation. The article outlines a number of preconditions for regional Institutionalisation, stressing what is called the capacity for power-sharing; the power aggregation capacity and the commitment capacity of the biggest power in a region. While regionalising state elites are constrained, they possess a much greater freedom of choice than neo-realism claims.
Frank Doyle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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systematic review and meta analysis of the impact of carer stress on subsequent Institutionalisation of community dwelling older people
PLOS ONE, 2015Co-Authors: N Donnelly, Anne Hickey, Annette Burns, Paul J Murphy, Frank DoyleAbstract:Background In the caregiving literature there is a common assertion that a higher level of carer stress is a critical determinant of premature ending of homecare. However, this contention has not been systematically assessed. We therefore systematically reviewed and meta-analysed the prospective association between various forms of carer stress and subsequent Institutionalisation of community-dwelling older people. Methods Systematic literature search of prospective studies measuring carer stress at baseline and Institutionalisation at follow-up. Given substantial interchangeability in the measurement of carer stress, we included a wide number of exposure measures, namely: carer stress, burden, depression, distress, anxiety, burnout, and strain. Institutionalisation included both acute and long-term care utilisation. The standardised mean difference between stressed and non-stressed carers was the primary measure of effect. We assessed study quality with the Crowe Critical Appraisal Tool (CCAT). Pre-planned sensitivity analysis included examination of estimates according to study size; decade published; study quality according to quartiles of CCAT scores; population; follow-up period; study design and impact of adjusted or unadjusted estimates.
