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dc.contributor.authorRowlands, Bruce
dc.contributor.editorEric Monteiro (Editor-in-Chief)
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:26:38Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:26:38Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2011-07-06T10:05:12Z
dc.identifier.issn09050167
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/22900
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports on research into how systems developers enact a systems development methodology (SDM) with a focus on describing how method enactment is bound up in everyday social and institutional structures. The case study develops the argument that institutional structures (such as authority, sets of norms and routine ways of doing things) embedded within the methodology are active forces in the systems development process. We ground our argument on the findings from a case study of an in-house developed SDM in a large-scale IT department within a major financial institution in Australia. The findings of the case show that despite the rhetoric of business client involvement working in unison with systems developers, the excerpts depict a conflict of interests with the client exercising nearly complete control over the development process and the in-house developers playing a submissive role. In terms of contribution to research, the study operationalises a theoretical framework that integrates elements of a social actor model outside its original domain to provide a deeper understanding of the institutional forces at play in information systems development.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Aalborg, Department of Mathematical Sciences
dc.publisher.placeDenmark
dc.publisher.urihttp://iris.cs.aau.dk/index.php/volume-20-40200841-no-2.html
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom21
dc.relation.ispartofpageto48
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalScandinavian Journal of Information Systems
dc.relation.ispartofvolume20
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInformation Systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLibrary and Information Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode0806
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode0807
dc.titleThe Enactment of Methodology: an Institutional Account of Systems Developers as Social Actors
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, School of Information and Communication Technology
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorRowlands, Bruce H.


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