... of function systems, organizations, and interactions. This conceptual apparatus is used to conduct a bottom-up analysis of digital society across four meaning dimensions: social, temporal, thematic and enactive. Findings The study argues that digitization acts not merely as a technological layer...

... at: renee.kuriyan.wittemyer@intel.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Trust Communication technologies Organizations Human capital There is a growing literature on the connections between ICTs, trust, and human development. This predominantly has been focused on: the role of trust in ICT...

... – affiliations and environments – relate people to their organisation, and to the industries and environments of those organisations. It was this multi‐level focus that instantly attracted me to the model, as I knew from questioning and listening to the interviewees in the field study that their use...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Organizations Myths Organizational culture Information exchange The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the power of cultural myths used to motivate employees in the ICT‐enabled workplace. Managers of the IT workplace have attempted to motivate employees...

... of the organizations in which they are introduced and used. On the contrary, they are configured by their users, to be adapted to their social environments. The field study, observed how members of an institution struggled to make sense of the introduction of a new computer network, and found that the final move...

... and the organizational structure of an organization. The project involved the introduction of a groupware product called Lotus Notes^TM to facilitate communication and collaboration among the senior management team of a tertiary educational institution in New Zealand. Although there was a real need for change...

...Jan Damsgaard; Rens Scheepers Intranets hold great promise as “organizational Internets” to allow information sharing and collaboration across departments, functions and different information systems within an organization. Yet not much is known about how to implement intranets. We adapt a taxonomy...

... of social forces that enhance similarity of systems across organizations. Three conditions also are identified which moderate these effects: dependence on external institutions having control over an organization’s resources; unclear performance standards for system development; and interaction patterns...

..., the organisation or both are modified (Wijnhoven and Wassenaar, 1990). The research instrument was developed through an iterative process of review and refinement. The questionnaire was split into four major sections, the first of which sought to collect background information about the respondent’s...

.... The research method used was that of critical ethnography (Forester, 1992; Myers, 1997; Power, 1991; Thomas, 1983, 1993), which was chosen as the most appropriate method for our purposes. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Ethnography Information systems Organizations An important focus of much...

... for comparison and suggest that methodologies can be compared on the basis of philosophy, model, techniques, tools, scope, outputs, practice and product, and they classify approaches within six broad themes: © Company 1995 Corporate culture Ethnography Information systems Organizations...

... a scheme which is practicable and economic, and of sufficiently high integrity to address the risks the organization confronts in its dealings with people. Proposes that much greater use be made of schemes which are designed to afford people anonymity, or which enable them to use multiple identities...