Analysing organisational structures and SDI performance
Dessers, Ezra et al.
Although SDI researchers widely agree that organisational aspects are of fundamental importance to setup a successful SDI, this awareness has not yet lead to much substantial research on the subject. This paper applies organisational theory concepts to interpret SDI development issues, and is divided into four parts. In the introduction, the importance of business processes for SDI is made clear. The second part surveys and evaluates the treatment of organisational aspects in SDI literature. In the third part organisational theories are introduced to demonstrate that the structural dimension of organisations and their business processes is fundamental to understand, analyse, and respond to the needs and problems of these organisations. This paper shows that this structural dimension, both at the organisational and the inter-organisational level, is almost completely missing in SDI literature. However, the structural dimension in particular is relevant for SDI performance, as is presented in part four. This paper ends with the formulation of the hypothesis that SDI performance will be influenced by (inter-)organisational structures. This hypothesis will be tested in a series of case studies in 2009.
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