e-Government holds the potential to facilitate the complementary use of information systems in government comprising both operational and strategic use. This paper argues that if this metamorphosis is to occur, managers are facing five key strategic challenges: 1) Assessing the demand paradox of e-government. 2) Ensuring that gate-keeping mechanisms of the street-level bureaucrats are not erodi...

While normative research in IS has recommended strategic partnership-building between Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and top management (Earl & Feeny, 1994; Feeny, Edwards, & Simpson, 1992), many CIOs express they have difficulty in trying to prove the explicit benefits of such a relationship (e.g., Martin, 2007; Overby, 2003). Due in part to the paradoxical nature of and complexity involved...

Human resource practices are important to enable a company to gain competitive advantage (Barney & Wright, 1998) and enjoy global sustainability (Gollan, 2005). Effective implementation of strategic human resource management is essential and significant in shaping the success of a business (Hoque, 1999) as well as in building human capital or people management as a competitive advantage. Many M...

Marc J. Rosenberg’s book titled E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age is a high-level, enterprise-wide strategic approach to e-learning in today’s organizations. Although focused on corporate organizations, the concepts and strategic tools presented in this book are applicable and appropriate for any type of organization. Organizations desirous to investigate the be...

In this paper, we outline some potential conflicts that platform owners and software developers face in mobile application markets. Our arguments are based on comments captured in specialized online discussion forums, in which developers gather to share knowledge and experiences. The key findings indicate conflicts of interests, including 1) intra-platform competition, 2) discriminative promoti...

Business Strategy encapsulates an organisation’s intentions towards the achievement of its vision. As such, business strategy frames the overarching business roadmap towards the accomplishment of strategic goals driven by competition, by own capabilities, or by innovation. Consequently, such a roadmap needs to be considered when building systems aimed at supporting the functionality of an enter...

Building on Battigalli and Dufwenberg (2009)’s framework of dynamic psychological games and the recent progress in the modeling of dynamic unawareness by Heifetz et al. (2013a), we model and analyze the impact of asymmetric awareness in the strategic interaction of players motivated by belief-dependent preferences like reciprocity and guilt. Specifically we characterize extensive-form games wit...