Why Managers Don’t Manage: An Interpretive Case Study of Information Systems Adoption Management
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2024-01-03
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Although there is a large amount of research on adoption and benefits management, we know surprisingly little about how and why managers manage adoption of enterprise systems. By conducting an interpretive case study, we explore managers’ perceptions of adoption management. Through semi- structured interviews, we uncover that two levels of management expressed surprisingly little action to influence users’ adoption towards desired benefits once the application is live. The data analysis found a mental rationalisation pattern that justified the managers’ (lack of) adoption action. We identify these ostensive and performative structures as a project- centric mindset to highlight how the rigid boundaries of project completion are prioritised, thus challenging holistic adoption management.
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Socio-Technical Issues in Organizational Information Technologies, adoption management, case study, management actions, management justification, project thinking
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10 pages
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Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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