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posted on 2019-12-04, 13:51 authored by Frank Nyame-Asiamah, Peter KawalekPeter KawalekA growing body of information systems (IS) literature advocates the explicit use of suitable critical theories to explore power issues in developing countries and make IS research findings more accessible to systems’ users and the wider audiences for consumption. We respond to this debate in IS by applying critical research perspectives to discuss the power implications of Internet and e-mail resource distribution in a Ghanaian teaching hospital in a way that addresses clinicians’ concerns of using Internet services for healthcare practices. We applied critical qualitative approaches to collect and analyse data from clinicians, healthcare managers and the hospital’s internal documents. It was found that managers exercised their powers to allocate Internet facilities selectively on the contestable account that clinicians might misuse the Internet if they were given access and that they would seek to empower themselves as co-planners who could make technology choices and add new value to the existing normative decisions of the managers. The outcomes show that critical researchers can directly relate to decision-making powers, recognise their powers and expose structures that surround them, and emancipate people whose Internet resource needs are restricted to co-involve in technology adoption and distribution processes.
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School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
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Journal of Global Information Technology ManagementVolume
23Issue
1Pages
53 - 75Publisher
Taylor and FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© Frank Nyame-Asiamah and Peter KawalekPublisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Global Information Technology Management on 16 December 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1097198X.2019.1701356.Acceptance date
2019-11-29Publication date
2019-12-16Copyright date
2019ISSN
1097-198XeISSN
2333-6846Publisher version
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