BACKGROUND There is difficulty in defining occupational health services among stakeholders of the service. Concurrently, there are concerns about the state of occupational health provision in the UK. AIMS To determine stakeholders' perception of the services that occupational health encompasses and the level as well as the rationale behind the provision of these services. METHODS The resear...

Many systems of systems (SoS) occur today through the collaboration of multiple stakeholders, without any clear authority or direction at the SoS level. Examples include a supply chain, an airport, and the Internet. Because of the uncontrolled interactions, such a SoS exhibits complexity behaviors such as reflexivity, emergence, self-organization, and adaptation. This paper presents underlying ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to explore stakeholders' perception of an on-going evidence-based task-shifting strategy for hypertension (TASSH) in 32 community health centers and district hospitals in Ghana. METHODS Using focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, qualitative data were obtained from 81 key stakeholders including patients, nurses, and site directors of partici...

This study is an ethical analysis of the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the context of taxi business, i.e. it is an attempt to investigate the ethical consequences of installing GPS in taxis. The reason for installing GPS in taxis was to increase the taxi drivers’ security, but there are other effects of the installation as well. When the stakeholders that are possibly affected by the techn...

Forest certification is a practice that has been consolidated worldwide in recent years as a result of certification often being associated with sustainability. However, there is not much research available on the perception of stakeholders and experts of that association. This study evaluates how key stakeholders relate certification to sustainability, and its implications for forest managemen...

Adding to the debate regarding use of the disconfirmation approach in assessment of IS effectiveness, this chapter explores the role that expectations play in defining stakeholders’ evaluations. A trial was conducted with a diverse group of participants in a tertiary institution where each was required to complete two questi nnaires that were derived from the SERVQUAL instrument. The first comp...

The term business model is widely used and is increasingly gaining importance as a business concept and management tool, particularly in e-business. Several authors propose the application of the business model concept in different domains, such as for e-business planning, IS alignment, visualization, innovation, e-business process design or improving communication between stakeholders. Yet, li...

We studied the differences in perception between IS managers and developers about the deployment of systems development methodologies. The results indicated that IS managers were generally more positive about systems development methodologies than were developers. IS managers perceived methodology support for organizational alignment, and methodology impact on the productivity and quality of th...

The requirements elicitation phase of software development projects is characterised by the intensity and importance of communication activities. Requirements elicitation is a traditional exploratory phase in which context is analysed and an abstraction is performed as a consequence. However, exploratory processes are characterised by a deep interaction with environmental factors. In this paper...