2013 Awards for Excellence

Citation

(2014), "2013 Awards for Excellence", Information Technology & People, Vol. 27 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-03-2014-001

2013 Awards for Excellence

Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Information Technology & People, Volume 27, Issue 1

The following article was selected for this year's Outstanding Paper Award for Information Technology & People

"Coordinating humanitarian information: the problem of organizational and technical trajectories"

Andrea H. Tapia, Edgar Maldonado, Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu and Carleen F. Maitland

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek to examine two humanitarian information coordination bodies. The goals of both coordination bodies are the same, to find mechanisms for multiple organizations, engaged in humanitarian relief, to coordinate efforts around information technology and management. Despite the similarity in goals, each coordination body has taken a different path, one toward defining the problem and solution in a more technical sense and the other as defining the problem and solution as more organizational in nature.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops case studies of two coordinating bodies using qualitative methodologies.
Findings – The data suggest that coordination bodies which pursue problems requiring low levels of organizational change are more likely to have visible successes. Coordination bodies that pursue a more challenging agenda, one that aims for information management or management of information technology in ways that require organizational change, are likely to face greater challenges and experience more failures.
Research limitations/implications – The paper only examines two coordination bodies at one point in time thus claims cannot be made about all coordination bodies and all information coordination efforts.
Originality/value – In a time where coordination bodies are seen as an answer to the problem of information sharing during disasters, it is essential to gain understanding concerning the success of these efforts.
Keywords Cooperation, Coordination, Coordination body, Global information systems, Humanitarian NGOs, Information systems, Non-governmental organizations, Structuration theory

This article originally appeared in Volume 25 Number 3, 2012, Information Technology & People

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The following articles were selected for this year's Highly Commended Award

"Dimensions of employee privacy: an empirical study"

Kirstie Ball, Elizabeth M. Daniel and Chris Stride

This article originally appeared in Volume 25 Number 4, 2012, Information Technology & People

"Sequential attrition of secondary school student interest in IT courses and careers"

Catherine Lang

This article originally appeared in Volume 25 Number 3, 2012, Information Technology & People

"Professional commitment, organizational commitment, and the intention to leave for professional advancement: an empirical study on IT professionals"

Vincent Cho and Xu Huang

This article originally appeared in Volume 25 Number 1, 2012, Information Technology & People