Syed Arshad Raza and Craig Standing
This paper aims to propose an extended version of systems development life cycle (SDLC) based on critical systems thinking for information system (IS) adoption in an…
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Purpose
This paper aims to propose an extended version of systems development life cycle (SDLC) based on critical systems thinking for information system (IS) adoption in an organizational context from a management perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
The model integrates traditional SDLC with the ongoing process of “phase‐stakeholders‐identification” or “pha‐stak‐ification”. The emerging systemic stakeholder networks is proposed to be applied with network mechanisms to influence stakeholders' attitudes towards IS adoption. The authors, considering IS adoption as a multi‐phase innovation project, argue that boundary considerations using a multiple stakeholder perspective (boundary critique) provides an alternative focus for IS adoption.
Findings
The study suggests that the proposed model has the capacity to serve as a roadmap for a smooth IS adoption by facilitating organizational learning and change.
Research limitations/implications
The study has not been tested empirically.
Originality/value
Successful IS implementation improves organizational efficiency and creates competitive advantage. Established information technology adoption models like technology acceptance model and theory of reasoned action consider technology adoption from the users' viewpoint without taking a holistic perspective into account. This article takes a systems perspective to technology development and the systems development life cycle.
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The study examines the role of how Digital Twin Technology and stakeholder collaboration in enhancing supply chain resilience and agility, specifically within humanitarian…
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The study examines the role of how Digital Twin Technology and stakeholder collaboration in enhancing supply chain resilience and agility, specifically within humanitarian aspects. The author used theoretical lenses of Resource-Based View to understand how combining advanced technological resources and relational resources could lead a firm towards better supply chain performance in conditions of volatility and complexity.
Design/methodology/approach
The study employs a quantitative research approach, utilizing structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyse data collected from key stakeholders involved in humanitarian supply chains. The model tests the relationships between Digital Twin Integration, stakeholder collaboration and the resulting supply chain outcomes, that is resilience and agility.
Findings
The findings indicate that Digital Twin Technology notably improves supply chain resilience and agility driven by real-time sensing, predictive analytics and process alignment. Additionally, stakeholder collaboration plays a mediator role in enabling organizations to gain full benefits of DTT. The research corroborates the importance of a combined use of technological and relational resources to enable an agile and resilient supply chain, especially in humanitarian settings.
Originality/value
The research makes a novel theoretical contribution by extending the Resource-Based View to appreciate advanced technologies like Digital Twin Technology and their integration in supply chains. The study presents a comprehensive model that integrates technology, collaboration, agility and offers new perspectives on the value of stakeholder engagement to ensure technological innovation delivers its optimum benefits.
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Jaime García-Rayado and Chesney Callens
This research analyzes the roles of users in innovative digital health collaborative projects from the perspective of the user by considering three dimensions: their motivation…
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This research analyzes the roles of users in innovative digital health collaborative projects from the perspective of the user by considering three dimensions: their motivation, project activities and the support of the partnership for their effective involvement.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors unraveled profiles of users by using a Q-methodological analysis of 24 statements and 44 service users. The statements for the three dimensions were designed according to previous models of stakeholder identification and customer participation in new product management.
Findings
The authors obtained two profiles that advocate active participation of users, though with a different degree of involvement. One of them supports the role of users as “advisors” of users' preferences and needs, and the other indicates a higher involvement of users as “cocreators” of the innovation, with the same contribution and responsibility as the other partners.
Originality/value
Previous research has analyzed user involvement in digital health, as part of wider research on factors leading to the success and adoption of innovations. Moreover, previous research has analyzed user involvement in innovation projects, but without differentiating between projects carried out by an individual organization and those conducted by a partnership. This research contributes to filling this gap by revealing users' expectations about their involvement and how they think they will fit in with the dynamics of collaborative projects.
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Maribel G. Valdez, Roberto N. Padua and Alice G. Comahig
This chapter examined which APEC 21st-century skills Filipino women educational leaders best exemplify. It looked into the ways in which these leaders manifest these skills in…
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This chapter examined which APEC 21st-century skills Filipino women educational leaders best exemplify. It looked into the ways in which these leaders manifest these skills in their power roles. It also determined what their plans are for the ASEAN integration as they steer their organizations toward the goal of the Philippines, which is to open the country to better opportunities as it collaborates with its neighbors. Finally, this chapter generated theories based on the power roles of these Filipino women educational leaders. This study is a qualitative examination of the skills these leaders employ and uses a questionnaire to gather data from three women presidents of State Universities and Colleges in Northern Mindanao, the Philippines.
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L.P. Molenmaker, J. Kratzer and M.C. Achterkamp
The goal of this research is to fill the gap in lead users' research under children. An effort is made to analyze the characteristics of lead users in social networks of children…
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Purpose
The goal of this research is to fill the gap in lead users' research under children. An effort is made to analyze the characteristics of lead users in social networks of children. Furthermore, their role in the adoption and diffusion of innovations is examined.
Design/methodology/approach
An experiment is conducted at primary schools in The Netherlands, with children aged between 8 and 12 years. An innovation is introduced in a social network (school class). Lead users are identified and their adoptive behavior is examined.
Findings
The following characteristics of lead users are identified in this study. Lead users have an efficient place within a social network, which allows them to receive diverse and non‐redundant information. They have a higher familiarity with the product category, and they are perceived as experts by their peers. Finally, lead users are more likely to be boys than girls. This study discovers as well that there is a significant positive relationship between lead userness and the current use of the innovation and the intention to use it in the future.
Research limitations/implications
This research is only performed in one kind of product category in one particular market. Additional research should strengthen the findings of this research and explore the possibilities to generalize these findings. Further research should focus more on exploring additional characteristics of lead users, which will enhance the identification of lead users in networks of children. From a marketing point‐of‐view it would be interesting to investigate the influence of media on lead users and a lead users' ability to influence the diffusion of an innovation.
Originality/value
This paper is unique together with the paper of Kunst and Kratzer, because it investigates the lead user method in networks of children. It makes a first effort to determine the characteristics of lead users in networks of children. This is vital because it enhances the identification of lead users, consequently organizations can involve them in the development process of innovations.
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Relying on a design science paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to describe the development and evaluation of items for an ICT artefact that supports the assessment of…
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Relying on a design science paradigm, the purpose of this paper is to describe the development and evaluation of items for an ICT artefact that supports the assessment of transversal professional competences within the validation of prior learning (VPL). To do so, the authors build a conceptual bridge between the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) and the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
Design/methodology/approach
Design science research paradigm, in particular the participatory development of candidate items and their evaluation in a multi-stakeholder approach.
Findings
The authors find that a self-assessment of professional competences should be comprised of 160 items in order to cover the breadth and depth of the O*NET in the hierarchical taxonomy. Such quantity of items sufficiently builds a conceptual bridge between the O*NET and the; EQF.
Practical implications
When designing procedures for the VPL, it is imperative to bear in mind the purpose of the validation procedure, in order to determine relevant stakeholders and their needs in advance as well as the; required language proficiency of the assessment instrument.
Social implications
The innovative value of this approach lies in the combination of an underlying hierarchical taxonomy with assessment items that are developed based on the qualification standards of different Austrian professions. Together with specific verbs that were adapted for each particular item, an innovative self-assessment is proposed. Thereby the authors aim to account for some of the mentioned shortcomings of the EQF.
Originality/value
This paper applies a design science paradigm to develop an ICT artefact that should support the VPL. By reflecting on the design process, the authors introduce a theoretical bridge between the O*NET and the EQF. Thereby the authors aim to account for some of the mentioned shortcomings of the EQF.
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N. Oosterloo, J. Kratzer and M.C. Achterkamp
The purpose of this paper is to identify lead users within social networks of young adults between 14 and 17 years of age.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify lead users within social networks of young adults between 14 and 17 years of age.
Design/methodology/approach
A questionnaire and the SAGS‐method were used to collect data within seven high schools in the north of The Netherlands. These data were used to empirically test five hypotheses using the variables which could enable the identification of lead users. A multiple regression analysis was used to test the predictive value of the variables. The analysis was complemented with a qualitative analysis of the collected data.
Findings
The main characteristics which identify lead users among adults can also be used with young adults. Those young adults who are more likely to be a lead user, are more ahead of a trend and have a higher amount of expected benefit. They also display more expertise than other young adults.
Research limitations/implications
The variable of perceived information benefits could complement the variables used for identifying lead users among young adults, but further research is necessary. Because the focus is on only one specific product, the generalizability of the results from this research is limited. Further research should include different products or services in different domains of interest. The variables of perceived information benefits and efficiency did not have a significant positive relation with lead userness, but further research is needed.
Practical implications
The identification of lead users could be valuable to organizations that focus on young adults in the age range 14 to 17 years and could lead to significant commercial benefits. Young adults are a large potential market and the identification of lead users within this target group could help organizations
Originality/value
Research on lead user theory is mainly focused on adults or organizations. This article tries to fill this research gap by focusing on young adults. It is an extension of the research of Kratzer and Lettl, Kunst and Kratzer and Molenmaker et al. who focused on children from 8 to 12 years old.
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Derk Jan Kiewiet and Marjolein C. Achterkamp
This paper aims to measure new product success within a Dutch mailing company and to hypothesize that there exists no definition of new product success which is generally…
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This paper aims to measure new product success within a Dutch mailing company and to hypothesize that there exists no definition of new product success which is generally applicable, or valid in all circumstances. It seeks to opine that the best that can be achieved is a “local” definition: a definition valid only in a specific local context. In this article, a method is described on how to develop such a local measure.
Design/methodology/approach
To prevent this framing bias, a multidimensional scaling approach is used, in which data collection and analysis have relevant new product success features as output instead of input.
Findings
The method was applied to a Dutch mailing company, and it was found that in this case only two dimensions of new product success were prevalent. These were ROI and customer acceptance. From this, it was inferred that local valid measures in this particular situation were only a subset of all measures of new product success mentioned in the literature. Originality/value – In summary, the method used could shed light on the difficulties that sometimes do arise when different parties are working together. As a consequence, not only researchers but also practitioners should become aware of the indefiniteness of the concept of new product success.
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Qi Zhang, Shengyue Hao and Kon Shing Kenneth Chung
A project manager’s (PM) emotional intelligence (EI) is essential for project performance (PP). However, the cause and effect and the potential moderators of the relationship…
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Purpose
A project manager’s (PM) emotional intelligence (EI) is essential for project performance (PP). However, the cause and effect and the potential moderators of the relationship between EI and PP remain disputed. Some scholars found a positive association between PMs’ EI and project outcomes, while some other studies showed non or negative relation. This paper aims to find the relationship between PMs’ EI and PP and the factors that influence this relationship based on diverse prior research.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 5,229 observations based on 24 independent studies from 1990 to 2021.
Findings
Results show that PMs’ EI has a significant positive influence on PP, and the project complexity and measurement of PP are two critical moderators explaining inconsistencies in existing research.
Practical implications
The current study proposes suggestions for construction companies on PMs’ selection and training. This study also offers suggestions for PMs in management practice.
Originality/value
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to explore the inconsistencies in prior research results on the relationship between PMs’ EI and PP at the meta-analytic level. This research extends the current literature by revealing the factors leading to existing consistencies that are not explored before. This study implies that the meta-analysis method could help reach a balanced conclusion based on inconsistent results.