The concept of social role is a fundamental underpinning of the design and implementation of a wide range of learning technologies. However, the roles that are designed into technologies often ill-fit the real roles of teachers, learners and other stakeholders in educational institutions. This can exacerbate problems in adoption as stakeholders do not recognise the roles described for them in t...

The deployment of core health care service delivery applications such as Telemedicine presents various challenges in low income countries. The challenges range from technical problems to complex politico-economic, managerial, and behavioral issues. We conducted a case study (Yin, 2009) to understand the impact of various stakeholders on the current telemedicine projects at the Black Lion Teachi...

This paper argues that the notion of value has been overly simplified and narrowed to focus on economic retums. Stakeholder theory provides an appropriate lens for considering a more complex perspective of the value that stakeholders seek as well as new ways to measure it. We develop a four-factor perspective for defining value that includes, but extends beyond, the economic value stakeholders ...

The purpose of this research is to examine why organizations with similar objectives and environments at the beginning obtain different outcomes when implementing enterprise architecture (EA) projects and how EA institutionalization process occurs. We conduct a qualitative multiple-case study using the lens of institutional theory through the analysis of intra-organization relations. The result...

This paper adopts a transdisciplinary perspective to studying the use of collaborative technologies for environmental collaboration among diverse stakeholders, mobilised towards creating and achieving shared environmental goals. Environmental collaboration is a complex phenomenon involving a multitude of stakeholders and resources often dispersed across vast geographically, politically and cult...

The practical rationale for architecture design and description of softwarebased systems were inquired in three software-producing organizations. In addition to the traditional programming-in-the-large view that dominates the mainstream research on software architecture, this grounded-theory based study suggests that other important purposes for software architecture, especially such related to...

The purpose of this panel involves helping the IS community devise strategies for augmenting the field’s credibility. Representing different continents, educational systems, and roles, our panelists will provide a global perspective on IS credibility. Using stakeholder theory as an organizing framework, this panel will identify the key stakeholders that positively and negatively influence the I...

The stakeholder view of the firm has contributed to re-define the relationship between the firm and its stakeholders. Stakeholder theory can be grounded on instrumental or normative arguments. While many recent theoretical and empirical works in the stakeholder management literature have used the generic instrumental/normative distinction, the nature of stakeholders “stake” itself has received ...