The Study of Information System Development (ISD) Process from the Perspectives of Power Development Stage and Organizational Po

This paper is to study the information system development (ISD) by looking into fifty-six cases from the perspectives of power development stage and organizational politics. We intend to find out why the ISD will be a success or a failure. In this research we sort out 192 examples of political games from 56 cases, which can be categorized into forty-one kinds of games. Some of them, because of their special features, appear only in one of the ISD stages of planning, development, or implementation. We have come to the following conclusions: The unclear performance evaluation system, role ambiguity, distrust placed in individuals, will induce more political games. And the political games will thus bring negative impacts on the organizational culture, too. Leading an easy life and providing lip service, game players usually exploit only the type of power I. The ten kinds of game players, including staying aloof exploit the type of power II, and then they can hold stronger power for they ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Ling-hsing Chang, Tung-Ching Lin, Sheng Wu
• Keywords: Biometrics, Game Players, HICSS 2002, Organizational Politics, Political Games