Intergroup Collaboration: An Examination through the Lenses of Identity and IT Affordances

This research seeks to increase our understanding of the relationship between IT affordances and collective identity in the context of intergroup collaboration. Particularly, we investigate the type of IT affordances (i.e., collaborative, organizational memory, or process management) that are more prone to support certain types of identities (i.e., superordinate collective identity, intergroup relational identity, or intergroup ambivalent identity) when groups need to collaborate towards the accomplishment of a common goal. We suggest three hypotheses which we plan to test via a field study within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry

Pengaruh Keadilan Organisasi, Kepuasan Kerja dan Penggunaan Media Sosial terhadap Kinerja Karyawan pada BPS (Badan Pusat Statistik) Sukoharjo

This study aims to determine the effect of organizational justice, job satisfaction and use of social media on employee performance. The sample in this study used a saturated sample, where all populations were sampled. Data analysis in this study used SMART-PLS. The object of this research was conducted at the Office of the Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) Sukoharjo with a population of 102 respondents. The type of data used is primary data whose data is obtained directly from the respondents. The research method used is a questionnaire or interview method. The data analysis used in this research is the outer model testing stage, the inner model testing stage and the hypothesis testing stage. The results of the analysis test in this study show that organizational justice has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, with a t-statistic value of 2.309 greater than the t-table value of 1.96 and a probability value of 0.021 less than α (0.05). Then, job satisfaction has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, with a t-statistic value of 2,539 greater than the t-table value of 1.96 and a probability value of 0.011 less than α (0.05). Finally, the use of social media has a positive and significant effect on employee performance, with a t-statistic value of 4.154 greater than the t-table value of 1.96 and a probability value of 0.000 less than α (0.05)

The relationship between needs, motivations and information sharing behaviors on social media: Focus on the self-connection and social connection

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that influence the information sharing behavior of individuals on social media. Furthermore, the study analyzes the effect that individuals’ self-connection to social media has on information sharing through self-efficacy and the effect of social-connection on information sharing through empathy. Design/methodology/approach A survey questionnaire was developed and distributed to social media users from general participants in the Republic of Korea. A total of 824 valid responses were obtained. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling and applying SmartPLS 3.0. Findings The result indicated that individuals are motivated to share information through self-connection and social connection. Furthermore, the mediation analysis revealed that the effect of self-connection on information sharing in social media is mediated by self-efficacy. Also, social connection will increase information sharing not only directly but also indirectly through its positive effect on empathy. Originality/value The authors focused on the basic needs of humans and tried to reveal the relationship between human needs and motivational beliefs, which are self-efficacy and empathy, and information sharing behavior on social media. Through the individual's fundamental needs that social media can satisfy, individuals will gain positive psychological benefits through using social media. This study considered what psychological benefits social media can provide

GOVERNANCE IN IMPLEMENTING WEAKLY STRUCTURED INFORMATION SYSTEMS

The implementation of information systems (IS) is a complex process that requires appropriate governance to ensure that the technical capabilities of the new IS align with organizational goals. However, existing literature lacks insight into how this alignment occurs when IS are designed as open-ended, weakly structured systems that offer generic functions, rather than for a singular purpose. To address this gap, this study examines the implementation of a low-code AI platform in eight large companies and the governance practices they employed to align the system\u27s capabilities with their organizational goals. The findings highlight the importance of balanced governance practices that support and constrain the generative capacity of weakly structured IS, while enabling continuous interdependent development of organizational and technical capabilities throughout implementation. This study contributes to IS literature by responding to calls to examine challenges of implementing weakly structured IS and offering practical recommendations for implementation teams and system vendors

An identity perspective on coopetition in the craft beer industry

Research Summary: To further our understanding of how and why organizations engage in coopetition, we explore cooperative and competitive actions in the craft beer industry. Through an inductive field study, including interviews with craft brewery owners, we propose collective identity and collective norms play a critical role in the persistence of coopetition over time. Our process model suggests that (a) an oppositional collective identity, (b) the shared belief that a rising tide lifts all boats, and (c) the shared belief that advice and assistance should be paid forward, can lead to the persistence of coopetition beyond market category emergence. Managerial Summary: This paper develops a theory of how smaller, craft-based organizations (i.e., “Davids”) encourage cohesion and cooperation amongst themselves when operating against an incumbent market of mass-producers (i.e., “Goliaths”). An ideological opposition to existing players can lead to a shared belief that helping organizations like your own benefits everyone—the rising tide lifts all boats mentality. Similarly, when organizations first enter a market and receive help from established members, they can feel compelled to help others who enter the market after—the pay-it-forward mentality. Together, these mechanisms offer an explanation as to how and why coopetition might persist in a market category over time

Shared identity, says who? How diverse organizations interact in entrepreneurial ecosystems

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are comprised of a diverse and interacting set of organizations which aim to support and develop new ventures and their surrounding regions. Although prior research has celebrated the diversity of these support organizations as a necessary enabler of entrepreneurial capacity in a region, such diversity can at times introduce liabilities given different motives and interests. In this study, we explore how different organizations orient toward such diversity, thereby enabling or constraining the capacity for collaboration across ostensible divisions. Through an inductive case analysis of 15 organizations, we surface an inductive model of how leaders’ perceptions of a regional ecosystem identity combine with their organizations’ identity orientation to influence their interactions across the ecosystem. Based on this model, we propose a typology of organizational sponsorship, which characterizes organizations as either builders, partners, participants, or bridgers. This model and typology extends our understanding of the differences between organizational sponsors within entrepreneurial ecosystems, while bridging the study of organizational identity, categories and ecosystems

Interorganizational information acquisition in an innovative SME network: innovation and information types

Information and innovation have been increasingly recognised as sources for firms’ competitive advantage. One of the ways firms have used to acquire these resources is through cooperative relationships, such as networks. This research proposes a conceptual model of antecedents and consequences of the volume of relevant information acquisition and innovation generation in the context of a Portuguese Innovative SME Network. This is an exploratory descriptive study, conducted through a survey of 60 SMEs (34.9% of the population). The results showed that for most firms, the participation on the network does not contribute to the acquisition of relevant information from other firms.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Implementation of weakly structured systems: moving from local practices to common organizational rules

The traditional implementation of an information system assumes that the IT system to be implemented is highly structured (HSS), carrying out regulatory functions expressed in organizational rules scripted into the system. Subsequent implementation seeks users’ compliance with stated regulatory needs. We propose an alternative view of implementing IT systems when such systems are weakly structured (WSS). In these systems, most scripted rules express the composition and behavior of digital objects, which organizational members tend to voluntarily enact as part of their tasks. By using analytical inference and illustrative examples, this work extends the Trifecta model of organizational regulation by developing a vocabulary and a process model for the evolution of the rule system during the implementation of WSS. The offered model depicts IT implementation as a movement from local practices, where system uses are discovered as affordances, to wider rule sets that regulate and enforce the shared deployment of such affordances

Journal Analysis between 2011 and 2015

In 2011, at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) in Denmark, the Department of Informatics and the Centre for Applied Information and Communication Technology (CAICT) merged to form the Department of Information Technology Management (ITM). In April 2017, this department changed its name to the Department of Digitalization (DIGI). This paper analyses the first five years’ 111 journal (five year is the departments strategic planning period). The purpose of the paper is to investigate to what extent these articles reflect the DIGI’s strategy. We compare previous expectations with present realities in the following areas: (1) articles published in leading journals, (2) organise articles around emergent themes and (3) focus on articles about information and technology. DIGI’s mission is to co-create knowledge with enduring consequences through the study of the interrelationships among people, information, and technology. DIGI’s strategy is to create a context where researchers can realize their potential in a supportive and conducive environment with a set of common values, aspirations, and directions. This can only be achieved by building a work environment founded on mutual trust and respect where the best academics can thrive. The ITM strategy, revised in 2012, outlines three areas that could be used to measure whether the department has achieved its goals or not. The first area relates to our goal “to increase the visibility and impact of our research”. Therefore, each department faculty member is responsible for publishing his/her work in journals that are the most and thereby obtain a high author h-index. The second area reflects our size and potential impact “as one of the largest information system departments in Europe”. Our goals are equally grand. The research should be organized in order to create opportunities for collaboration as well as to keep up with the fast and radical innovation typical for the IT field. One way of achieving this is to organize research around themes rather than traditional research groups. Themes are emergent, topical, popular, inter-disciplinary, and dynamic in nature. They are usually active for 3 – 7 years, after which they either transform into other themes or dissolve altogether. The third area relates to the ambition to focus on “the interaction of people, information, and technology in all of its manifestations” (ITM’s strategy. We study how individuals, groups, organizations, and society can grow and prosper by capitalizing on information technologies. IT should always play a central role in our research. We do not focus solely on technical aspects or on organizational aspects, but rather take a socio-technical perspective and a multidisciplinary approach to address a range of strategic, structural, and operational activities involved in gathering, processing, storing, distributing, and using information and its derivatives in organizations and society. Before presenting the methodology and the results of our literature review, a brief summary of the accumulated knowledge contribution found in Research@CBS. During the period 2011 to 2015, the department had 565 publications in total, of which 115 were journal publications. Later four were excluded (not classified), leaving 111 journal articles to be analysed