Mapping an Integrative Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Theoretical Framework in Social Work Practice

Toward an Integrative Framework for Evaluation Practice

Evaluation has been beset with serious divisions, including the paradigm wars and the seeming segmentation of evaluation practice into distinct evaluation theories and approaches. In this paper, we describe key aspects of an integrative framework that may help evaluators move beyond such divisions. We offer a new scheme for categorizing evaluation methods within four inquiry modes, which are “f...

Information Technology Enabled Organizational Transformation: Toward an Integrative Theoretical Framework

Information Technology enabled Organizational Transformation (ITOT) persists as an important issue for researchers and practitioner of information systems. Although the usage variety is interesting and potentially significant, the discourse surrounding OT remains poorly explicated in terms of both meaning and relationship with other related concepts. Several models have been developed in the li...

Economic Functions of Management Consulting Firms - an Integrative Theoretical Framework

Although the advent of modern management consulting firms can be traced back to the 19 century, management consulting has come to the fore as a distinct service industry within the last three decades (McKenna, 1995; Wooldridge, 1997). However, hardly any other profession is more liked and disliked, envied but also trusted at the same time (Huey & Davis, 1993). But criticisms of consultancies ar...

Towards an integrative Theoretical Framework of IT-Mediated interruptions

Whilst contemporary information technology (IT) fosters ongoing connectivity and offers organisational advantages, it can also create unintended outcomes due to task disruption. However, despite a strong interest of scholars and practitioners in IT-mediated interruptions, they are scarcely addressed in information systems (IS) research, and our understanding about their nature and effects is li...

An Ecological Approach for Social Work Practice