Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context

By Geoff Walsham. 2001

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Discourses on ICT and Development (2010, background): “…as oversimplifying cultural difference (see, for example, Myers & Tan, 2002); they “sweep the subtleties of cultural difference under the universal carpet,” as Walsham put it in his extensive discussion of examples of IS innovation and culture research in developing countries (Walsham, 2001).”
Are we making a better world with ICTs? Reflections on a future agenda for the IS field (2012, background): “I argued over a decade ago (Walsham, 2001) that a good way of summarising our field to ourselves and outsiders alike is to say that we work on the question: ‘Are we making a better world with ICTs’?”
Power and Information Technology Research: A Metatriangulation Review (2002, background): “…endemic to organizational practice , power is a messy, elusive concept that not only has surface or visible characteristics, but also hidden characteristics that are difficult to define and grasp (Frost 1987; March 1966; Morgan 1986; Pfeffer 1981; Pfeffer and Salancik 1978; Walsham 1993, 2001).”
Information systems in developing countries: a critical research review (2008, background): “…by IS scholars as oversimplifying cultural difference, see for example Myers and Tan (2002); they ‘sweep the subtleties of cultural difference under the universal carpet’ as Walsham put it in his extensive discussion of examples of ISDC studies of IS innovation and culture (Walsham, 2001).”
Reconceptualizing Users as Social Actors in Information Systems Research (2003, background): “However, even researchers who have a richly contextualized conception of users as social actors often write ambiguously about agency and workers, so their conceptions can be readily interpreted as either individualistic or social (cf., Orlikowski and Barley 2001; Walsham 2001).”
Technology, capabilities and critical perspectives: what can critical theory contribute to Sen’s capability approach? (2011, background): “Moreover, the central role of ‘‘agency’’ in Sen’s capability approach allows us to challenge the perception of potential users of ICT as passive receivers of innovations, especially when technologies are transferred to the third world from more advanced economies (Walsham 2001), and when technologie”
Research on information systems in developing countries: Current landscape and future prospects (2006, background): “Barrett, Sahay, and Walsham (2001) described some related work on GIS for forestry management in India.”
Interpreting e-government and development: Efficiency, transparency or governance at a distance? (2005, background): “We submit that the same may happen at the global, geo-political level (Walsham, 2001).”
On the Difference or Equality of Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation: A Critical Research Perspective (2006, background): “The theory is problematic, however.”