An Ethnographic Study of Is Investment Appraisal

Howcroft, Debra; McDonald, Robert

doi:10.4018/jthi.2007070106

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“…This confirms previous findings (Elbanna, 2010) that projects are not fully defined entities, which makes comparison between projects even more difficult. In addition, underlying project complexities increase the perceived uncertainty of a project's outcome (Howcroft and McDonald, 2007). This was most clearly observed in Department A.…”

Section: Discussion Of the Findings And Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…These methods, however, have been subject to extended criticism due to their narrow perspective on the nature and impacts of IT (Ballantine et al, 1999;Smithson and Hirschheim, 1998;Howcroft and McDonald, 2007). A number of researchers argue that the IT evaluation process is subjective and contextual (Smithson and Hirschheim, 1998;Farbey et al, 1999;Howcroft and McDonald, 2007) as well as political (Wilson and Howcroft, 2005).…”

Section: Prior Research On It Project Prioritizationmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…In the IT project prioritization domain, a number of researchers have argued for the importance of the intangible characteristics of a project and its associated assets, which are not captured by methods such as cost-benefit analysis (Farbey et al, 1999;Howcroft and McDonald, 2007). For example, in a typical IT project, many benefits are intangible, making their financial values difficult to calculate.…”

Section: Evidence-based Management In It Project Prioritizationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…A number of researchers argue that the IT evaluation process is subjective and contextual (Smithson and Hirschheim, 1998;Farbey et al, 1999;Howcroft and McDonald, 2007) as well as political (Wilson and Howcroft, 2005). Intangible and non-financial benefits comprise a large proportion of IT projects' returns, yet it is nearly impossible to calculate hidden and indirect costs prior to development and implementation (Muralidhar et al, 1990).…”

Section: Prior Research On It Project Prioritizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the domain of IT project prioritization, we explain the adaptation of evidence-based management practices to reflect IT projects' characteristics (Smithson and Hirschheim, 1998;Howcroft and McDonald, 2007) and how this adaptation facilitates decision-making. Decision makers adopt tactics appropriate to addressing the unstructured and complicated task of IT project prioritization.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The adoption and effective utilization of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce in the healthcare industry can potentially assist in setting up an infrastructure which supports complex, multiparty Internet-based trading and transactions among medical products and services suppliers, insurers, wholesalers, and retailers in order to reduce health supply costs. This can lead to many benefits such as an increased accessibility to healthcare providers, faster sharing of information, a higher quality of healthcare services, searchable health information databases, enhanced care delivery capabilities, new product offerings, and reduction in healthcare costs and medical errors.However, despite high expectations for realizing the benefits of B2B e-commerce in healthcare, its adoption remains poorly understood and is also a relatively under-researched area. The potential for realizing significant benefits for implementation of B2B e-commerce does not appear to have been enough to provide impetus for extensive adoption by many healthcare organizations. Although B2B e-commerce provides these organizations a wealth of new opportunities and ways of doing business, it also presents them with a series of challenges. Therefore, the case study approach was utilized to investigate the constraints and critical success factors in adopting and utilizing B2B e-commerce systems in twenty-six organizations in the healthcare industry. The objectives of this research are: (1) to identify B2B e-commerce adoption and implementation constraints and critical success factors for organizations within the healthcare industry; and (2) to develop a framework for managing B2B e-commerce adoption and implementation constraints and critical success factors for healthcare organizations. A key contribution of the paper is to propose a framework in which constraints and critical success factors faced by healthcare organizations undertaking B2B e-commerce activities can be identified and examined.

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An Ethnographic Study of Is Investment Appraisal

Cited by 5 publications

References 42 publications

The interplay between evidence and judgment in the IT project prioritization process

The interplay between evidence and judgment in the IT project prioritization process

Understanding the Business Client – Systems Developer Relationship: A Power Perspective

B2B e-commerce adoption and implementation constraints and critical success factors in the healthcare organizations

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