35 research outputs found
the Performative Cohesion of Organizing Visions
We link the concept of an âorganizing visionâ to the idea of âperformativityâ
in order to better understand the challenges associated with implementing
integrated care, i.e. the usage of ICT in order to coordinate medical
treatments of the same patient by multiple medical professionals. More
specifically, we focus on how medical autonomy affects the performativity of
an organizing vision. Through an inductive case study of one German integrated
care provider, we indicate that medical autonomy seems to be positively
related to adoption decisions of ICT by medical professionals if an ICT-based
business model embraces medical autonomy. However, through looking at the
first four years of the implementation process, we also find that medical
autonomy seems to be negatively related to important ICT-related outcomes of
integrated care. Our study implies that a focus only on how actors translate
organizing visions may run the risk of underemphasizing context factors that
affect the adoption of integrated care on the organizational level. To depict
how such contexts influence the degree at which an organizing vision is
performative, we introduce the concept of âperformative cohesionâ.1. Auflag
A discursive framework
Despite the widespread interest in business models, relatively little is known
about how organizations innovate business models. We conceptualize business
model innovation as problem-atizing, i.e. a specific kind of âdiscursive
practiceâ that challenges the dominant paradigm under which a given collective
operates. Therefore, we transplant the concept of problematizing from the
literature on discourse theory to the literature on business models. Moreover,
we develop four ideal types of problematizing that matter for the business
model innovation process (determined prob-lematizing, exhaustive
problematizing, pragmatic problematizing and symbiotic problematizing). Each
of these types signifies a distinct probability whether the âideatedâ business
model will be âimplementedâ into the organization. We argue that the
occurrence of these types is influenced by the degree of compatibility between
different institutional logics of âideating unitsâ and âimple-mentersâ of
business models, as well as their power balance
Advancing the discussion about Clinical Decision Support Systems to tackle Adverse Drug Events: a âproblematizingâ approach
Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) can prevent situations in which doctors prescribe a drug to a patient that causes a harmful reaction with another drug that a patient already takes (adverse drug events (ADE)). This can be achieved through generating medication alerts in the moment that a drug is prescribed. Researchers have paid considerable attention to how to design these alerts in the best possible ways, however, largely with inconclusive results. We tackle this body of literature using a âproblematizingâ approach that enables to understand why research results are inconclusive by disclosing underlying assumptions in a body of literature that have over time shaped a scholarly debate into a particular direction. We uncover four problematic assumptions, offer alternatives to these assumptions and outline potentials to implement our ideas in future research projects
Capability Development in Interorganizational Projects
We examine how capabilities emerge in repeated interorganizational projects
and how they affect project development. A multifaceted understanding of
project capabilities in interorganizational projects is important, because
project management research emphasizes capabilitiesâ contribution to project
performance, but has also stressed their tendency to grow rigid. We review the
literature on interorganizational project collaboration to identify the
foundations and drivers of project capabilities in project networks and to
outline their potentially ambiguous consequences. Our systematic overview of
these studies provides a basis for further empirical research and project
management practice
Bringing Institutions in
This paper advances Picot and Baumannâs (2009) central paper on how
organization and management theory (OMT) can enhance business infor-mation
systems engineering (BISE). In particular, we extend their focus in three
ways. We introduce the industry and inter-organizational relations as levels
of analysis, which are of interests to BISE and we show specific methods to
ad-vance the links between OMT and BISE. We exemplify these points by a case
study on BreatheCorp., a multinational company that recently entered into the
provision of eHealth-based ventilation care services in Germany. Through our
empirical study, we can also contribute to theorizing the role of context for
in-ter-organizational information systems (IOIS)
On the Relationship of OMT and BISE: Bringing Institutions in
This paper advances Picot and Baumann\u27s (2009) central paper on how organization and management theory (OMT) can enhance business information systems engineering (BISE). In particular, we extend their focus in three ways. We introduce the industry and inter-organizational relations as levels of analysis, which are of interests to BISE and we show specific methods to advance the links between OMT and BISE. We exemplify these points by a case study on BreatheCorp., a multinational company that recently entered into the provision of eHealth-based ventilation care services in Germany. Through our empirical study, we can also contribute to theorizing the role of context for inter-organizational information systems (IOIS)
Using âPanel Reportsâ to Advance Scholarly Discourse: A Change in Editorial Policy and Guidelines for Panel Report Authors
âPanel reportsâ reflect a particular category of submissions that authors can make to the Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS). As the CAIS website states, panel reports (i.e., papers that report on panels, debates, symposia, workshops, and similar events) differ from traditional research papers in that they âhave to clearly position the matter of discussion at the event, highlight the relevance of event and topic and outline the different views on the topic that emanated at the eventsâ (see https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/panel_reports.pdf). While this definition has persisted for some time and still holds true, it leaves room for interpretation as to what constitutes a contribution and how one knows that a particular paper has made enough of one. In this editorial, we interpret and elaborate on these principles based on our collective experience with such reports
Talking Past Each Other - A Discursive Approach to the Formation of Societal-Level Information Pathologies in the Context of the Electronic Health Card in Germany
An explorative case study is used to investigate the formation of information pathologies on the societal level. The paper conceptualizes these particular information pathologies as âinteraction-related Information pathologiesâ (Picot et al., Information, organization and management. Springer, Berlin, 2008) and proposes that the production of information by multiple stakeholders leads to âdistortionsâ (Cukier et al., Inf Syst J 19(2):175â196, 2009) on the societal level. This broad proposition is then explored by means of a qualitative case study of the media coverage surrounding the implementation of the âElectronic Health Cardâ in Germany. Based on that study, the initial proposition is further specified by conceptualizing how a process of path constitution âdistortsâ a debate from being about legitimacy of an ICT innovation to being about illegitimacy of stakeholders
Persistent Paradoxes in Pluralistic Organizations: A Case Study of Continued Use of Shadow-IT in a French Hospital
In times when employees increasingly use private IS in their workplaces, organizations need to bring into balance use of authorized with non-authorized systems. We entered the field with the aim to understand how this is possible but ended up seeing a paradox: Doctors in a French hospital continued to use WhatsApp and other technologies to share sensitive patient data and management let them proceed despite the fact that this practice violated the law and numerous organizational policies. Using grounded theory methodology, we increasingly understood that the underlying problem was one where over-arching institutional logics informed agency of different groups within the organization whose pragmatic decisions to go about their work let the paradox that we saw persist. We thus build theory around why paradoxes persist in organizations and contribute to research on paradoxes and institutional logics, respectively