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Exploring It-Based Knowledge Sharing Practices: Representing Knowledge Within And Across Projects, Alina Maria Dulipovici Apr 2009

Exploring It-Based Knowledge Sharing Practices: Representing Knowledge Within And Across Projects, Alina Maria Dulipovici

Computer Information Systems Dissertations

EXPLORING IT-BASED KNOWLEDGE SHARING PRACTICES: REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE WITHIN AND ACROSS PROJECTS Drawing on the social representation literature combined with a need to better understand knowledge sharing across projects, this research lays the ground for the development of a theoretical account seeking to explain the relationship between project members’ representations of knowledge sharing practices and the use of knowledge-based systems as boundary objects or shared systems. The concept of social representations is particularly appropriate for studying social issues in continuous evolution such as the adoption of a new information system. The research design is structured as an interpretive case study, focusing …


An Examination Of The Deaf Effect Response To Bad News Reporting In Information Systems Projects, Michael John Cuellar Apr 2009

An Examination Of The Deaf Effect Response To Bad News Reporting In Information Systems Projects, Michael John Cuellar

Computer Information Systems Dissertations

Information systems project management has historically been a problematic area. One of the reasons for this has been the issue of escalation where resources continue to be committed to a failing course of action. While many causes of escalation have been proposed, this dissertation investigates one possible cause: that the project manager may not hear, ignores or overrules a report of bad news to continue a failing course of action: the Deaf Effect response to bad news reporting. This effect has not been previously studied within the information systems literature. In this dissertation, the Deaf Effect is examined through a …