[AISWorld] [AJIS] New Article: The Evolving Nature of Information Systems Controls in Healthcare Organisations: The Case of a Blood Banking Enterprise System from Western Europe

[Ajis Editor]

Hi,

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



*The Evolving Nature of Information Systems Controls in Healthcare
Organisations: The Case of a Blood Banking Enterprise System from Western
EuropeDeepak Saxena, Joe McDonaghhttps://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2635
<https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v24i0.2635>*

*Abstract*
Information Systems (IS) projects are found to be complex, unpredictable,
and prone to time and cost overruns. Perhaps that is why organisations put
a strong focus on IS controls during the planning and execution of such
projects.IS control literature in the past has focussed on dyadic control
relationships during an outsourced IS development project and relatively
little is known about such controls during a complex enterprise systems
project. Existing studies usually take a static view of IS controls and do
not investigate how controls evolve during different phases of the system
lifecycle, as well as across projects. This study presents a processual
view of IS controls in the enterprise systems lifecycle in a national blood
processing organisation. Traditional research in a blood banking context
has focussed on optimising the process of blood collection, inventory
management, and distribution with relatively limited attention to the
implementation of the supporting information systems. This research
focusses on the evolution of control based on a study of three enterprise
system implementation projects in the case organisation. The study
demonstrates that while all five control modes (input, outcome, behaviour,
clan, and self-control) are applied across the phases of enterprise systems
projects, the nature and extent of control mechanisms changes across the
phases of the enterprise system lifecycle. The findings also suggest a
teleological evolution of a project’s control portfolio in which the
portfolio evolves based on adaptive learning processes from earlier
projects. Finally, by exhibiting the influence of institutional and market
context, this study also underlines the multi-stakeholder and contextual
nature of enterprise systems implementation and associated controls in
health service organisations.

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(IS) discipline with an emphasis on theory and practice on the Australasian
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Topics cover core IS theory development and application (the nature of
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interaction of people, organisations and information technologies; the
analysis, design and deployment of information systems; the impacts of
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Cheers
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Editor-in-Chief, Australasian Journal of Information Systems
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