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The Institutional Logic of Harmonization: Local vs. Global Perspectives
Series
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Type
book section
Date Issued
2019
Editor(s)
Aveiro, David
Guizzardi, Giancarlo
Guerreiro, Sérgio
Guédria, Wided
Research Team
ACG, IWI1
Abstract
Perspectives in organizations differ to which extent information systems (IS) should be tailored towards local (e.g., business unit) needs or toward organi-zation-wide, global goals (e.g., synergies, integration). For contributing to overall IS performance success, the harmonization of different perspectives becomes essential. While many scholars have highlighted the role of IS management approaches, institutional studies argue that harmonization is not solely the result of managerial action, but a consequence of institutional pressures that guide organizational decision-making. In the paper at hand, we follow the call for adopting institutional theory on the intra-organizational level of analysis and study the logic of attaining harmoniza-tion along institutional pressures. By means of a revelatory case study, we find harmonization attained in a dynamic interplay between different institu-tional pressures. Mimetic pressures influence normative pressures, which in turn influence coercive pressures. Our findings as well as our implications for enterprise engineering guide prospective research in studying the attain-ment of harmonization through an institutional lens.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SoM - Business Innovation
Book title
Advances in Enterprise Engineering XII: 8th Enterprise Engineering Working ...
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publisher place
Cham
Volume
334
Start page
3
End page
17
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Division(s)
Eprints ID
255533