Meeting the Challenge of Technology-driven Change wihin an Institutional Context: The Greek Case(journal article)
by Sophia Philippidou, Christos Tarantilis, Eric Soderquist, Maria Karageorgiou and Gregory Prastacos
from Public Administration (OnlineEarly Articles)
"Propelled by the driving forces of globalization and technology explosion, public institutions face the challenge of rapid and discontinuous change. Such change has come to undermine the relevance of traditional approaches on how an institution should be managed. We analyse a technology-driven change effort, the implementation of an Integrated Information System (IIS), that unfolds within the boundaries of the institutional context of the Hellenic Parliament. The purpose of our research, which reports on a qualitative field study, is to explore and understand how the particularities of technology-driven change on the one hand, and institutional change on the other, can be integrated, paying particular attention to how the different actors involved in the process interact and affect the unfolding of such a change effort."