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This chapter describes the first case study, the ‘foundation’ for the rest of the research project. The case itself is disguised, according to the wishes of the enterprise concerned. As mentioned above, the case is an extraordinarily rich one. This, in conjunction with the generative power of the Grounded Theory method, has meant that for reasons of readability an abridged version of the case and findings is contained in this chapter. A detailed version can be obtained from the author’s companion website on demand.
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Please email Hans.Lehmann@vuw.ac.nz for access.
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All names and places have been changed; all money figures are in US Dollars.
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To preserve the case’s anonymity, the technology products are also disguised.
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To recapitulate: ‘Categories, in Glaser & Strauss (1967) terminology, are the main influences that shape the ‘text’ – or parts thereof. They are the building block objects of the theory-to-be-discovered, and the ‘factors’ whose relationships form the explanatory and predictive statements of the theory.
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Core Categories and Sub-Categories are formatted as shown.
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That is High central control over strategy as well as high local control over operations.
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That is Little autonomy as a result of strong central control over local operations.
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The paradigmatic assumption that obtaining equal Information content requires identical Application systems, running on the same Technology Infrastructure.
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In this context, it means relating to a specific, substantive, example.
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i.e. relating to established principles, – such as canons of good practice in the field of Information Systems in general – which for the purpose of this discourse are accepted as self-evident.
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The theorems, theses and postulates are set out in summarized form in the following paragraphs. The detailed set of theoretical statements is contained in the working papers and in the detailed notes contained in the companion web site.
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The paradigmatic assumption that obtaining equal Information content requires identical Application systems, running on the same Technology Infrastructure.
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The paradigmatic assumption that obtaining equal Information content requires identical Application systems, running on the same Technology Infrastructure.
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Lehmann, H. (2010). Foundation Case: The Australasian Food Co-op. In: The Dynamics of International Information Systems. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5750-4_6
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