An investigation of user-led system design: rational and political perspectives

An Ethnographic Study of Is Investment Appraisal

“…In fact, for some twenty years the political elements of IS development within organizations has been commented on. Take, for example, the following: (Franz andRobey, 1984: 1209) The focus on the rational aspects of evaluation fails to recognise the possibility that the outcome of such processes can be decided ahead and devised to support other managerial decision-making -a phenomena known as 'de facto decision-making' (Vroom and Yetton, 1973). Therefore, in this paper, whilst we are not attending explicitly to what to measure, rather we attend to the issue of why evaluate.…”

Power, Rationality, and the Art of Living through Socio-Technical Change

“…An early stream of research challenged the understanding of IS development and implementation projects as technical/rational action, by pointing out complications due to political activity by various participants (Franz and Robey 1984;Keen 1981;Kling and Iacono 1984;Markus 1983;Markus and Bjørn-Andersen 1987;Markus and Pfeffer 1983;Robey and Markus 1984). Since then, issues of politics and power associated with IS innovation is a recurrent theme in the IS literature i .…”

“…In contrast to the one-goal-for-all rational view, the pluralist view reflects competing goal sets. A central assumption, though, is that individual goals may be aligned with organizational goals through conflict resolution (Franz and Robey 1984;Keen 1981;Tillquist et al 2002).…”

Identifying the Barriers to Women's Agency in Domestic Violence: The Tensions between Women's Personal Experiences and Systemic Responses

“…In methods terms, intensive qualitative approaches such as narrative, life story or autobiographical techniques provide ways of illuminating lived experience through highly personalised and subjective narrative explication; they provide in-depth insights as opposed to the breadth of data offered in extensive or what are also referred to as nomotheic approaches (see [24] ([25], p. 9) (and this is reflected in their own narrative study of just two case studies). The participatory written narrative project with unsupported women victims of domestic violence also adopted similar techniques to the intensive case study approach where the researcher focuses 'on only one specific instance of the phenomenon to be studied… each instance is studied in its own specific context, and in greater detail than in extensive research' ( [26], p. 2; [27]).…”