I believe that there is always a political component in almost organizations but it is only one of factors that affect publication. The quality of research is a key determination to get published.
Despite the rigor there is undoubtedly a political component. There always is. So, the glad-handing is a way of not offending anyone who might be helpful or useful at a later time. At least there's no reason to create enem
I found the three editorials a very interesting set of documents. They are a great tie back to the first couple sessions of class. These memos represent many different things to me: 1.) These editors want to send a message about how they plan on r
Bock et al. bring together what I think some of us were hoping to see in the Pawlowski and Robey article. First, this article was actually based on theory, to be exactly the theory of reasoned action (TRA). From what I have gathered in a shor
I think that somehow the study could have been more rigourously designed to inlcuded quantitative analysis as well. If the authors had as much access as they did, they might have also wanted to do direct observational analysis to supplement
I don't think you need to apologize. I think most of us have had things come up that lead us to be behind in our postings and readings. Hope all is better with your family.
I agree that this is a very interesting book and is different from what we have read in our journals and other texts, but has way too many words to look up. I think I stopped after heuristic, just so I could try to stay with the flow of the
I am though the first 50 pages (chapters 1 & 2) and I finding it very hard to get going. Books that make me continuously look up lots of words in the dictionary to get their meaning really slows down my comprehension. It also takes away from my e
Pawlowski & Robey provide a very interesting study on knowledge brokering. This qualitative study brought to light many of the conditions that occur in the real world IT department in a large multi-location corporation. The IT staff does
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