Power, politics, and MIS implementation

Three perspectives: if Markus' 1983 classic study, "power, politics, and MIS implementation, " were being reviewed today (panel)

Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation: Stories of Power, Politics, and Resistance

This paper provides an interpretation of information technology implementation in a relatively unexplored context, that of higher education. In recent years, there has been a call by governments across the world for universities to improve operational efficiency and to reduce duplication of resources by implementing advanced information systems that span the institution and improve processes. U...

Education and Implementation in Mis

ion, but a real person tovvords whom one has clear responsibilities. (In a different setting one might substitute "client" for "user;" in this situation the responsibility is contractual.) The actions towards vv^ich the workshop aimed obviously concerned involvement, commitment, bridging the culture gap and taking on active roles in implementation. The more general point is that education for i...

Politics, Power, Poverty and Global Health: Systems and Frames

Striking disparities in access to healthcare and in health outcomes are major characteristics of health across the globe. This inequitable state of global health and how it could be improved has become a highly popularized field of academic study. In a series of articles in this journal the roles of power and politics in global health have been addressed in considerable detail. Three points are...

Party politics, elections and \(mis-\)trust in Japan

Trust matters profoundly for many dimensions of political life. In this article we focus on political trust: how the trust or mistrust citizens have toward the political process, politicians and government affects politics. Prior research has shown that political trust influences such crucial dimensions of politics as the basic legitimacy of government, political participation, voting behavior,...