Browsing Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change by Issue Date
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Exploring geographic variation in corporate broadband adoption; evidence from Irish small- and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs)
(CISC, 2007-12)We explore the context-speci c determinants of broadband takeup among small- and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs), attempting to shed some light on the sources of the considerable geographic variation in particular. We ... -
Data presentation for agile information systems project decision making
(2008)Awareness and use of agile methods has grown rapidly amongst the information systems development (ISD) community in recent years, and have been largely well received. While there are a number of purported benefits, many ... -
Pragmatic approach in IS projects grounded on recognised frameworks
(2008)This paper stands for IS projects that are carried out practionally, using action-oriented approach and by grounding on recognised frameworks to serve as a foundation for better IS research. We introduce two different IS ... -
Measuring knowledge transfer success by D&M
(2008)DeLone & McLean's success model has been actively used since its first introduction in 1992. In this article the model is extended to describe the success of knowledge sharing in an information system that included a part ... -
Managing tacit and explicit knowledge in organisational teams
(2008)In this article we analyse how tacit and explicit knowledge are managed in teams. Tacit knowledge is located in human persons and it can not be described formally as data or any other form while explicit knowledge is public ... -
Managing Lean Supply and Innovation: Cross-cultural Knowledge Transfer in an Multi-national Company
(2008)There is growing evidence that organisations are increasingly using the concept of lean supply to foster innovation. This paper considers key factors that influence this management approach in the context of the ... -
A Paradoxical Perspective on Contradictions in Agile Software Development
(2008)An ongoing debate on agile methods focuses on the contradictions in software development, especially responding to change vs. following a plan, and people vs. processes. Unlike the ¿either-or¿ perspective adopted in the ... -
Access rights as a part of information security in enterprises
(Association of Information Systems, 2008)This paper highlights the problem with access rights as a part of information security in enterprises with many information systems and their human users. In many organisations, users often write down their user names and ... -
Decisive and Incisive - The Path of DSS
(2008)Through this study we explore the literature discussing what management information systems are what decision support systems are in an attempt to clarify the taxonomies available in the literature into a holistic discourse. ... -
Seeking the face of innovation with the ethical compass of Emmanuel Levinas.
(Springer Verlag, 2008)A recent biographer has described the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas as being permeated by one simple but profound theme: western philosophy has at best ignored and at worst suppressed the ¿Other¿. The approach of this ... -
The Transposition of the European Information and Consultation Directive in Ireland
(2008)In this report we examine a range of employee information and consultation mechanisms in 15 organisations in the Republic of Ireland. The research was conducted specifically in relation to the European Employee Information ... -
Irelands foreign-owned technology sector: evolving towards sustainability?
(Wiley, 2008)For some, Ireland¿s pursuit of an exogenous-led development model has proved to be the cornerstone of recent economic success. Others point to recent high-profile closures and argue that foreign-owned operations are attracted ... -
HFACS with an additional level of granularity: validity and utility in accident analysis.
(2008)Introduction: This paper represents an attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of the Department of Defense's Human Factors Analysis and Classification (DOD-HFACS) system. DOD-HFACS delineates the human factors causes of ... -
Crew resource management training effectiveness: A meta-analysis and some critical needs
(Taylor and Francis, 2008)Empirical studies of crew resource management (CRM) training effectiveness were subjected to meta-analysis. Sixteen CRM evaluation studies were found to fulfill the a priori criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis. The ... -
People Management and innovation in Ireland
(2008-01)The People Management and Innovation survey reports findings from 165 of the top performing organisations in Ireland. The picture that emerges from the analysis suggests a moderate to low take-up of a full-blown High ... -
A dialogical action research approach to innovation as organisational change.
(Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems (ALOIS), 2008-05)This paper argues that dialogical action research (AR) recently proposed by Mårtensson & Lee, provides a novel framework for both relevant and rigorous collaboration between academics and practitioners. The work is presented ... -
The Implementation Of Citizen-Centred E-government: a Stakeholder Viewpoint
(2008-09-26)E-Government provides unprecedented opportunities to improve citize services and achieve cost efficiencies through process change. As a resul implementation models have been developed to support the successfu attainment ... -
Rethinking the Role of the IS Function
(2008-09-26)This paper proposes that IS managers need to review what they regard as their core competencies if they are to be a valuable asset to organisations in the 1990s. The authors start by questioning whether the IS function ... -
National Innovation Systems and Entrepreneurship
(2008-09-26)Porter (1990) argues that the future battles for competitiveness will not be fought just between organisations but also between nations. Looking at the nation as the unit of analysis, one way to become more competitive ... -
Deciding on open innovation: an exploration of how firms create and capture value with open source software
(Springer Verlag, 2008-10)Open innovation is a paradigm that proposes that firms can and should use external as well as internal innovations/ideas. A popular example of open innovation has been open source software (OSS). The key issues facing ...