Strategic planning theory: An institutional perspective

HIPAA Compliance: An Institutional Theory Perspective

One would think that the enactment of the HIPAA and associated mandates on data security and privacy has brought a major shift in the information security management practices across the US healthcare sector. Unfortunately, recent industry reports indicate substantially low level of regulatory compliance, thus raising security concerns to US health IT infrastructure. This research develops a re...

An institutional theory perspective on e-HRM's strategic potential in MNC subsidiaries

This paper extends the application of institutional theory to electronic human resource management (e-HRM), and strategic information systems (IS) more generally, in a multinational corporation (MNC) subsidiary setting. By adopting Scott’s (2001) institutional theory perspective, this paper explores the effects of host-country institutional factors on strategic e-HRM practices in foreign subsid...

Explaining Web Technology Diffusion: An Institutional Theory Perspective

A planning perspective on strategic data analysis

Over the past fteen years a variety of interactive IDA systems have been developed to support strategic reasoning for data analysis. We present an AI framework, hierarchical task network planning, that provides a unifying view of these e orts. We describe a taxonomy of strategic approaches to IDA, based on the planning framework, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses associated with each app...

Strategic Marketing Planning: Theory and Practice

In order to explore the complexities of developing a strategic marketing plan, this article is written in three parts. The first describes the strategic marketing planning process itself and the key steps within it. It also deals with implementation issues and barriers to marketing planning. The second part provides guidelines for the marketer which will ensure that the input to the marketing p...