Involvement in Small Community Based Organisations’ Websites

Abstract

This study is concerned with identifying stakeholders that community based organisations (CBO) in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK turn to when considering, developing, maintaining, and updating their websites. Several stakeholders are identified based on the strength of their ties with the CBO. A key finding is that stakeholders with weak ties are increasingly involved, from deciding who will host the website through to the stage of website redesign. Findings of the study have implications for setting policy on community based organisations.

Conceptualising the relationship types and attributes that enable stakeholders to recruit SME farmer users into IS design

“…Even studies involving SMEs have used social capital concepts to examine relationships among consultants and SME owner-managers when designing a website for a single SME (e.g. Burgess et al 2012). A contribution of this paper is showing these concepts can also make sense of relationships between IS project members and users during the design of an inter-organisational IS.…”