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Exploring Patterns in Information Management : Concepts and Perspectives for Understanding IT-Related Change
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book aims at advancing out understanding of information systems and IT-related organisational change. It spurs the development of the field by investigating fundamental concepts, discussing research-based models and frameworks, and reflecting on the field’s evolution and current practices. Intended readers of the book are graduate-level university and business school students, researchers, and reflective practitioners. Of the scholar contributing to the book’s nineteen chapters, many have played important roles in the development of the field in Scandinavia, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
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- Mähring, Magnus
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IT project governance
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation investigates how executives engage in information technology projects and how organizational control of IT projects forms and evolves over time. It contains an in-depth account of a large, multi-year IT project in a financial company. The story of the “New Deposit System” project provides insights into the dynamics of IT projects in organizations and the challenges facing executives engaging in the governance of these complex undertakings. Several characteristics of IT projects, such as their abstract nature, technological complexity and non-repetitiveness, render several of the manager’s trusted forms of control impracticable. Even the ideal of “strong top management support” is found to be problematic: it is an extraordinary measure unlikely to translate well into regular organizational practice. What we find instead are actors in search of means and ways to exercise influence. We find control to be reciprocal and dynamic, influenced by the organization and its history, by the principles and practices of corporate IT management and by the values and norms of the IT profession. In this environment, selection of key people, evolving trust, other people’s assessments and the construction and reshaping of a project image become important parts of the managerial repertoire for IT project governance.
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- Mähring, Magnus
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IT Project Governance : A Process-Oriented Study of Organizational Control and Executive Involvement
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper reports on a study of organizational control of IT projects, specifically how control forms and evolves over time and how executives engage in the control task. Viewing executive involvement in its organizational context, the study builds on studies on executive involvement in IT (including top management support), IT project escalation and IS project control, while drawing upon theories on projects, commitment, organizational control and professions. An in-depth, interpretive case study of a large, multi-year IT project in a financial company forms the empirical basis of the study. The study uncovers how characteristics of information systems development work tasks stack the deck against controllers, rendering output control and behavior control largely impracticable. Instead, control is constructed through selection of key people (input control), rituals resembling output and behavior control, reliance on evolving trust and other people's assessments, and through the construction and reconstruction of a project image, which summarizes scope and aims of the project. In contrast to earlier studies, "strong top management support" is found to be an extraordinary measure for extraordinary circumstances, but problematic as prescription for regular organizational practice. Commitment is decoupled from resource allocation, refuting a central assumption of escalation theory.
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- Mähring, Magnus
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Some Issues in the Evolution and Use of Conceptual Frameworks
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Ingår i: Exploring Patterns in Information Management: Concepts and Perspectives for Understanding IT-Related Change. - Stockholm, Sweden : Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (EFI). - 9172586311 - 9789172586314 ; , s. 209-228
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter discusses a conceptual framework for management of IT-related change, developed by Mats Lundeberg (1992; 1993; 1995; 1996; 2000). While focusing this specific framework, the chapter also addresses issues that pertain to the development, adoption, adaptation and use of conceptual frameworks in general.
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- Sundgren, Bo, et al.
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Introduction
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Ingår i: Exploring Patterns in Information Management: Concepts and Perspectives for Understanding IT-Related Change. - Stockholm, Sweden : Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (EFI). - 9172586311 - 9789172586314 ; , s. 1-7
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What is the identity of the field of information management? What makes it unique and different from other disciplines? This is a question that has challenged Mats Lundeberg during his research career, and it is a question to which he has given several important answers through his research.
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