[AISWorld] [AJIS] New Article: Conceptualising the Relationship Types and Attributes that Enable Stakeholders to Recruit SME Farmer Users into IS Design

[Ajis Editor]

Hi,

The *Australasian Journal of In*formation Systems has just published its
latest article.


*Conceptualising the relationship types and attributes that enable
stakeholders to recruit SME farmer users into IS design.  *
*Parker, C. M., Agustiono, W., Carr, R., & Saundage, D.*



*https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v23i0.1943
<https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v23i0.1943>Abstract*It can be difficult for
organisations which develop an information system (IS) for use by many
small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to recruit SME personnel during IS
design. The paper addresses this problem by exploring the nature of
relationships that organisational stakeholders can use to recruit SME
personnel during IS design, which has received little attention in the
literature. We present an interpretive, revelatory case study of the
insights from managers and field officers who recruited SME farmers during
the design of an inter-organisational IS. We identified three relationship
types, based on an existing framework in the literature derived from
stakeholder theory: between managers of organisations; between managers and
field officers; and between field officers and farmers. We extend this
framework by incorporating relationship attributes based on social capital
concepts: ties, shared cognition, structure, homophily and bridging
capital. We found that the complex interplay of the three relationship
types, and the degree of strength of the social capital attributes of these
relationships, help explain how farmers were recruited into, or were
discouraged from participating in, a lengthy IS design process.

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