Developing Health Information Systems in Developing Countries: The Flexible Standards Strategy

By Jørn A. Braa, Ole Hanseth, A. Heywood, Woinshet Mohammed, Vincent Shaw. MIS Q., 2007

530 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Geoff Walsham
2. Chrisanthi Avgerou
3. Stephen Louis Vargo
4. Jaideep Prabhu

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Geoff Walsham
2. Michael I. Barrett
3. Chrisanthi Avgerou
4. Stephen Louis Vargo
5. Jaideep Prabhu

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Chrisanthi Avgerou
2. Elizabeth J. Davidson
3. Geoff Walsham
4. Michael I. Barrett
5. Stephen Louis Vargo
6. Jaideep Prabhu
7. Paul M. Leonardi
8. Robert F. Lusch

Citations in the corpus

• Are we making a better world with ICTs? Reflections on a future agenda for the IS field (2012, background): “Bryant et al. (2009) noted that the IS field has had a long tradition of ethical consideration through the work of people such as Churchman, Mumford, Checkland and others.”
• Service Innovation in the Digital Age: Key Contributions and Future Directions (2015, background): “First, paralleling arguments for flexible standards in digital and IT infrastructures (see Braa et al. 2007; Ghazawneh and Henfridsson 2013; Henfridsson and Byzstad 2013), Lusch and Nambisan contend that service ecosystems require both structural flexibility and structural integrity: While…”
• Discourses on ICT and Development (2010, background): “While Pettigrew’s contextualist approach continues to be followed in IS in developing countries studies (Braa et al., 2007a), several 4 Information Technologies & International Development other theoretical approaches have been introduced to explore ICT innovation in the developing countries…”
• PRISM framework: a paradigm shift for designing, strengthening and evaluating routine health information systems (2009, background): “The flexible standard strategy is another paradigm proposed for developing information systems in developing countries (Braa et al. 2007).”
• Information systems in developing countries: a critical research review (2008, background): “This has led them to consider a range of issues, including standards that are sensitive to the local context and multiple country collaboration across north (technologically and economically advanced) and south (developing) regions (Braa et al ., 2007a).”