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This research in progress paper explores the role of technological deployment within the framewor... more This research in progress paper explores the role of technological deployment within the framework of standards adoption. Set within the context of a business school seeking and obtaining an industry recognized quality assurance standard, four information systems were deployed within several months of each other to support disparate work processes related directly and indirectly to the standard adoption. Whereas the IT systems adoption gained traction during the initial stages of deployment, their usage during an eighteen month period reveals variations in how embedded processes were embraced by different types of users in letter and spirit, especially after the b-school was accredited. Using the notion of coupling levels, two of the systems appear tightly coupled following accreditation, whereas two show malignant coupling and benign coupling respectively. This inductive research attempts to explicate the inner details behind the noted variations. A detailed case study is developed based on usage data of the four IT systems, user interviews, documents analysis, and historical analysis. Initial results indicate IT systems play a role in supporting the management of power and accountability. This is then interrelated with the adoption or resistance to the IT system based standardization. The study contributes to a limited body of literature that explores relationships of power dynamics in organizations and information technology. Our work hopes to confirm and provide the basis for a socio-technical framework when studying social regulation in organizations using technology.
We examine the role of identity of professionals on strategizing. This qualitative study takes pl... more We examine the role of identity of professionals on strategizing. This qualitative study takes place within the empirical setting of a business school undertaking Assurance of Learning (AoL) activities while seeking accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). It investigates the praxis of faculty members while doing AoL. A strategy-as-practice perspective is employed to investigate the under-studied element of practitioners and the praxis they use during strategizing. We interview faculty members that represent a professional body of actors. Our research identifies two distinct strategic implementations of AoL, one prescribed and another emergent in nature. It is found that the variation is based on the inter-relationship of practitioner’s identities with their praxis.
This paper uses performance theory and institutional theory to examine the adoption of The Associ... more This paper uses performance theory and institutional theory to examine the adoption of The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation in South Korea (Korea). Using self-completion questionnaire data from the deans of 24 Korean business schools, the study examines both performance and isomorphic drivers as motivating factors of adoption. While exploratory, the study found that the stage of accreditation adoption is positively associated with the performance driver of resource dependency, as well the institutional drivers of mimetic and normative isomorphism. This is one of the few papers that examine performance and institutional drivers together; and to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the only one to investigate AACSB accreditation in Korea.
This research in progress paper explores the role of technological deployment within the framewor... more This research in progress paper explores the role of technological deployment within the framework of standards adoption. Set within the context of a business school seeking and obtaining an industry recognized quality assurance standard, four information systems were deployed within several months of each other to support disparate work processes related directly and indirectly to the standard adoption. Whereas the IT systems adoption gained traction during the initial stages of deployment, their usage during an eighteen month period reveals variations in how embedded processes were embraced by different types of users in letter and spirit, especially after the b-school was accredited. Using the notion of coupling levels, two of the systems appear tightly coupled following accreditation, whereas two show malignant coupling and benign coupling respectively. This inductive research attempts to explicate the inner details behind the noted variations. A detailed case study is developed based on usage data of the four IT systems, user interviews, documents analysis, and historical analysis. Initial results indicate IT systems play a role in supporting the management of power and accountability. This is then interrelated with the adoption or resistance to the IT system based standardization. The study contributes to a limited body of literature that explores relationships of power dynamics in organizations and information technology. Our work hopes to confirm and provide the basis for a socio-technical framework when studying social regulation in organizations using technology.
We examine the role of identity of professionals on strategizing. This qualitative study takes pl... more We examine the role of identity of professionals on strategizing. This qualitative study takes place within the empirical setting of a business school undertaking Assurance of Learning (AoL) activities while seeking accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). It investigates the praxis of faculty members while doing AoL. A strategy-as-practice perspective is employed to investigate the under-studied element of practitioners and the praxis they use during strategizing. We interview faculty members that represent a professional body of actors. Our research identifies two distinct strategic implementations of AoL, one prescribed and another emergent in nature. It is found that the variation is based on the inter-relationship of practitioner’s identities with their praxis.
This paper uses performance theory and institutional theory to examine the adoption of The Associ... more This paper uses performance theory and institutional theory to examine the adoption of The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accreditation in South Korea (Korea). Using self-completion questionnaire data from the deans of 24 Korean business schools, the study examines both performance and isomorphic drivers as motivating factors of adoption. While exploratory, the study found that the stage of accreditation adoption is positively associated with the performance driver of resource dependency, as well the institutional drivers of mimetic and normative isomorphism. This is one of the few papers that examine performance and institutional drivers together; and to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the only one to investigate AACSB accreditation in Korea.