In public sector transformation context, various studies have utilised institutional theory as a lens to explore the institutionalisation process of digital-enabled services. While institutional theory contributes towards understanding such transformation, limited explanation is offered on the underlying process, undermining the impact of interplay between institutional structure and actors in ...

In this paper, we describe the introduction of electronic commerce into the drug distribution industry in China. This case is especially interesting because massive institutional changes coincide with the introduction of a new technology. For these reasons, it becomes possible to study the interaction of technological and institutional change in real time and in their real-life context. We use ...

The need for constant transformation of enterprises is omnipresent. A discipline that has been proposed to support the coordination of enterprise transformation is Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) which has grown to a mature discipline in academia and practice. However, it can be observed in practice that it still is a challenge to introduce such an architectural coordination approach f...

Institutions, the rules of the game that shape repeated human interactions, clearly play a critical role in helping groups avoid the inefficient use of shared resources such as fisheries, freshwater, and the assimilative capacity of the environment. Institutions, however, are intimately intertwined with the human, social, and biophysical context within which they operate. Scholars typically are...

Social-ecological systems’ dynamics challenge institutions and their functions. For a socio-ecological system to be sustainable, a balanced interdependence of societal and ecological systems is vital. Provided the diversity of social-ecological system contexts, different institutional functions are required for sustaining the balanced interdependence of a social-ecological system. In our paper,...

Institutional repositories are “digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community” (Crow, 2002). While some repositories focus on particular subject domains, an institutional repository stores and makes accessible the educational, research and associated assets of an institution. Although most of the currently established institution...

* This paper was prepared while the author was a World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellow. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed here are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliate organizations, or to members of its Board of Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy...

The Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program is designed to increase psychological strength and positive performance and to reduce the incidence of maladaptive responses of the entire U.S. Army. Based on the principles of positive psychology, CSF is a historically unique approach to behavioral health in a large (1.1 million members) organization. There are four program elements: (a) the asse...

Despite growing attention, social values, compared to economic aspects, of information technology (IT) capture substantially less attention in the mainstream IT literature. In the context of mobile technology, social values might be as critical to help justify technology investment as the predominant economics perspective in the existing IT literature. As wireless networks and relevant mobile t...