Power, Politics and Mis Implementation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Power, Politics and Mis Implementation Introduction This paper outlines and illustrates a political perspective on the implementation of management information systems in complex organizations. The perspective has two objectives: first, it attempts to explain resistance to information systems, defined as behavior intended to circumvent or redirect what a system has been designed to do, by features of the information system's design which represent a loss in power for affected users. Data from two cases of information system implementation are examined for evidence to support this hypothesis. Two alternative hypotheses relating to the technical and user-oriented aspects of the system's design and the process of implementing the system are examined and are also found to account for the resistance behavior observed. However, these hypotheses do not account for the behaviors which occurred after the initial resistance or before the system design process was started. The second objective of the political perspective is, then, to account for these other events, integral aspects of the system's life cycle. Thus, the perspective attempts to explain longer-run outcomes of an information system for the organization, specifically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.