Analyzing Power as Information in Organizations: Thinking about How to Do It!
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Understanding the power dimension of information use is important in developing and implementing information systems. The essay is a description of a research model for conceptualizing the politics of information within organizations. The essay presents a perspective on organizational culture as an information landscape, its dimensionalities, and the political frame of information use. In introducing the political frame of power as information, the paper summarizes a conception of information frames. The politics of information is about the use of information and information resources as sources of power and control within an organization. The political frame of information use consists of several possible domains. These are the technological, the monarchist, the feudalist, the federalist, and the anarchist. The paper presents a view of quantitative and qualitative field research for the purpose of understanding the nature of information governance and control in organizations.
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