Globally, health management information systems (HMIS) have been hailed as important tools for health reform (1). However, their implementation has become a major challenge for researchers and practitioners because of the significant proportion of failure of implementation efforts (2; 3). Researchers have attributed this significant failure of HMIS implementation, in part, to the complexity of ...

In this paper we explore how the implementation of an Enterprise System (ES) is related to organizational change, using an institutional theory lens. Our paper responds to recent calls by institutional theorists to first, better understand the ways in which macro, field-level logics of action are framed and applied in micro practices within an organization and second, to understand how material...

The economic crisis and the financial scandals highlight the significance of corporate governance. The internal audit function has gained great attention for assuring good corporate governance. ERP systems significantly change the information processing environment in organisations and act as a means of corporate governance change. ERP systems have embedded structures and institutional logics w...

Amongst the research of institutional logics, field-level logics have continuously gained interest among scholars. A cultural emergence model of field-level logics was proposed in the latest development of the institutional logics perspective (Thornton et al. 2012). This study aims to validate a section of the model: the relationship between resource environment and emergence and evolution of f...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use theories of institutional logics and institutional entrepreneurship to examine how and why macro-, meso-, and micro-level influences inter-relate in the implementation of integrated transitional care out of hospital in the English National Health Service. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted an ethnographic case study of a hospital and su...

This paper takes the increasing internationalisation of professional service firms (PSFs) and recent institutionalist perspectives on embedded agency as opportunity to explore how the interplay of normative settings can create opportunities for institutional work. Using observational and interview data from an embedded single case study in a global law firm, the paper examines how banking lawye...