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This research explores how diverse and distributed organisations and individuals establish electronic collaboration and how such collaboration affects the creation and achievement of shared goals. This phenomenon is particularly striking in the context of environmental collaboration where Environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (ENGOs), governments, private organisations and community groups and individuals need to act together in order to deal with critical climate change issues. While research on collaborative technologies has been predominantly limited to laboratory settings and intra-organisational situations, this research context allows investigation of the roles and usage of collaborative technologies in complex situations in which numerous stakeholders with diverse interests cooperate to address pressing environmental problems. Furthermore, this research investigates the ways collaborative technologies are adopted by ENGOs and other stakeholders in different settings, thus, enabling better understanding of electronic collaboration and mechanisms of convergence towards joint actions. This thesis adopts a transdisciplinary perspective to study an Information Systems (IS) phenomenon: the adoption and utilisation of collaborative technologies by diverse stakeholders mobilised towards creating and achieving shared goals. This phenomenon is explored through the study of ENGOs – key players in enacting electronic collaboration that involves diverse stakeholders in an environmental problem and bridge the gap between governmental initiatives and local communities. The thesis contextualises the environmental problem situation in three countries, and considers the multifaceted emergences of environmental collaboration from various local ENGO vantage points, through empirically exploring electronic collaborations and their outcomes. A research approach, based on the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) was adopted in the study of the emergence of environmental electronic collaborations enacted by ENGOs in Australia, ...

Part 6: Research in Progress and Practice ; International audience ; The spectacular corporate collapses over the past decade, along with the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and similar legislations across the world, have promoted significant awareness of IT governance. However, the causes of success and failure in IT governance framework adoption are yet to be adequately studied. This study aims to address this deficiency by proposing a research model to investigate factors influencing the success of IT governance adoption. The research model draws upon the information systems success model by Delone and McLean (2003) and the Technology-Organisation-Environment framework by Tomatzky and Fleisher (1990), to provide an integrated conceptual perspective for examining IT governance adoption and success.

Over the past few decades, information technology (IT) has played a central role in transforming society and enabling the knowledge economy. Such transformation has also introduced new problems, leading to a growing need among organisations to adopt IT governance frameworks in order to provide assurance that their IT operations meet required standards and community expectations. However, the adoption of such frameworks is a complex phenomenon fraught with risks and challenges, and is yet to attract adequate research attention. This study explores factors influencing the success of IT governance frameworks adoption by proposing an integrated research model that draws upon the technology-organisation-environment (TOE) framework and the Delone and McLean's information systems (IS) success model. Data were collected from 126 Australian organisations that have adopted IT governance frameworks through mail surveys and analysed using the partial least-squares (PLS) method. The findings demonstrate that ease of use, innovation compatibility, training and external pressures were significant to the success of IT governance frameworks adoption, assessed through user satisfaction; while ease of use, top management support, external support and user satisfaction were found significant to organisational performance. These findings are of relevance to researchers, practitioners and a broad range of organisational stakeholders, given the growing global importance and implications of IT governance frameworks adoption to organisations.