Firms in China, and in Asia-Pacific countries to a certain degree, cannot escape from two institutional characteristics of modern organizations: the uniquely Eastern practice of guanxi and the uniquely Western artifact of information technology. While both constructs have been extensively studied in organizational contexts, few have examined how these two constructs interact with each other and...

Failure to identify the right institutionalization framework has caused derailments of major public sector Digitally-Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) projects in the UK, such as the NHS-National Program for IT (NHS-NPfIT) and BBC Digital Media Initiatives (BBC-DMI). Although such cases have generated much debate among the research community, majority of the discussions have been dominated ...

Virtual teams represent an organizational form which can revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness. Extant reviews on virtual team research lack in two important aspects: First they do not explain the inconsistencies in virtual team research, and second they fail to explain how virtual teams achieve success. This paper, bas...

This paper focuses on the application of structuration theory, seeking to explicate analytical considerations by which key structurational constructs may be operationalized so as to guide a detailed empirical analysis. In so doing, the paper offers a methodological contribution in respect of the conduct of structurational-based IS research. Owing to its high level of abstraction, structuration ...

Prior research has extended Giddens' (1984) structuration theory to incorporate material agency as part of a social-technical ensemble. Yet the ways in which physicaldigital spaces contextualise interactions and structure work practices is under explored. In our study, we extend concepts of locale and regionalisation from structuration theory to IS fields of research in digitally mediated commu...

Résumé. Les tags fournis par les utilisateurs des plateformes de tagging social ne sont pas explicitement liés sémantiquement, et ceci limite considérablement les possibilités d’exploitation de ces données. Nous présentons dans cet article notre approche pour l’enrichissement sémantiques des folksonomies qui intègre une combinaison de traitements automatiques ainsi que la capture des contributi...

Smartcards are a very interesting means to include our own datas and code in a distributed system, during our interaction with it. To achieve this, smartcards integration must be ensured. A transparent usage of card services is necessary to a more wide-spread use. This usage should be available remotely within a distributed environment. Additionally other features such as possible upgrades of c...

This paper explores issues associated with information sharing with emergency services entities through the lens of information security, structuration theory and agency theory. Information sharing can result in moral hazard that needs to be addressed to facilitate information transfers needed during emergency services. Developing a solution to the moral hazard issue associated with information...

Recent studies show e-government implementations are biased towards the realization of efficiency and service effectiveness benefits, with less attention paid to the delivery of public value. Public value (PV) is a corner stone for balancing benefits across all stakeholders and it redefines our understanding of e-governmental success. However, e-government is having minimal impact on PV. Furthe...