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context of EIS, this phase may consist of a set of questions to be<br />

answered by the LGA department prior to sharing information.<br />

(c) Proposal that indicates the formal proposition for adopting any<br />

kind of innovation within an organisation. In the context of EIS,<br />

the proposal can be done through any kind of protocol or set of<br />

agreed principles on sharing personal or confidential information,<br />

(d) Participation Decision that refers to the actual phase in which<br />

the department takes the decision on adopting the specific<br />

innovation. Regarding the EIS initiative, a final decision should<br />

be made when the department has passed through all the above<br />

stages; and (e) Sustainability that refers to the stage in which an<br />

organisation begins to realise the need for strategic changes<br />

towards the use of innovation.<br />

Research Proposition B – EIS Participation Lifecycle: The<br />

departments within an LGA might pass through numerous phases<br />

prior to final decision on EIS with other departments.<br />

2.3 Mapping Factors on Participation Phases<br />

It is worth examining the mapping of EIS participation factors on<br />

participation phases in LGAs. The actual mapping would be<br />

carried out after conducting the empirical research and we<br />

propose the following research proposition to be investigated:<br />

Research Proposition C – Mapping EIS Factors on the<br />

participation Phases: The factors influencing EIS participation in<br />

inter-departmental collaboration in LGA can be mapped on<br />

different phases of participation to support the decision-making<br />

processes of EIS.<br />

2.4 Investigating the Prioritisation of Factors<br />

It should be indicated that prioritisation of factors and identifying<br />

which factor(s) is more important should take into account as it<br />

enables the organisation to improve the procedure of decisionmaking<br />

[3, 4]. Saaty [5] argued that the development of<br />

prioritisation is strongly reliant on the judgement of individuals<br />

within the organisation who involve in the phenomenon.<br />

However, because of the different roles, responsibilities, attitudes,<br />

and backgrounds within the organisation, the individuals may<br />

present different judgement on the prioritisation of factors.<br />

Therefore, to a great extent, prioritisation of factors may<br />

determine whether or not inter-department information sharing<br />

effort would have a constructive result(s). Thus the following<br />

research proposition can be proposed for further investigation:<br />

Research Proposition D – Prioritisation of Factors influencing<br />

EIS: Prioritisation of the factors in each participation phase can<br />

improve the decision-making process of EIS in LGAs.<br />

The arguments reported in previous sections (Section 2.1 to<br />

Section 2.4) prove that the role of factors, participation phases,<br />

mapping of factors on participation phases, and prioritisation of<br />

factors on the participation phases based on their importance<br />

should take into consideration prior to EIS in LGAs. The<br />

researcher proposes that the research propositions (RP-A to RP-D)<br />

should be examined jointly. In doing so, a detailed conceptual<br />

framework for EIS in LGAs is proposed in Figure 2.<br />

3. RESEARCH METHOD<br />

An interpretive, exploratory case study approach will be<br />

employed in order to investigate and analyse the research<br />

propositions. The reason for selecting this approach is that we<br />

486<br />

seek to understand the human thoughts on EIS efforts within the<br />

social and organisational context surrounding the initiative since<br />

the social world cannot be reduced to isolated variables.<br />

Moreover, For the purpose of this study, semi-structured interview<br />

will be utilised as the main data collection technique. Prior to the<br />

interviews, some structured questions to be used as the interview<br />

agenda and some open-ended questions will be prepared.<br />

Political Pressure<br />

(F1)<br />

Inter-­‐Org. Leadership<br />

(F5)<br />

IT Capabilities (F9)<br />

Factors Influencing Participation in EIS (RI – A) Participation Phases<br />

(RI – B)<br />

External Environment<br />

Cost of Sharing<br />

Information (F13)<br />

Business Process<br />

Compatibility (F16)<br />

Economic Pressure (F2)<br />

Return on Investment<br />

(F6)<br />

Data Security and Privacy<br />

(F10)<br />

Capacity of Organisation<br />

Technology Environment<br />

EIS Characteristic<br />

Benefits of Sharing<br />

Information (F14)<br />

Legislation and Policy<br />

Principals (F3)<br />

Network Collaboration<br />

Culture (F7)<br />

Information Quality<br />

(F11)<br />

Inter-­‐departmental Environment<br />

Inter-­‐Departmental Trust<br />

(F17)<br />

Risk of Sharing<br />

Information (F15)<br />

Critical Mass (F18)<br />

Factors Incentive Conception Proposal Participation<br />

Decision<br />

F1<br />

F2<br />

F3<br />

F4<br />

…<br />

F18<br />

Community Pressure<br />

(F4)<br />

Organisation Size (F8)<br />

Technical<br />

Interoperability (F12)<br />

MAPPING FACTORS INFLUENCING PARTICIPATION IN EIS<br />

ON PARTICIPATION LIFECYCLE PHASES (RP – C)<br />

PRIORITISING THE IMPORTANCE OF FACTORS ON<br />

PARTICIPATION LIFECYCLE PHASES (RP – D)<br />

Sustainability<br />

Factors Incentive Conception Proposal Participation<br />

Sustainability<br />

Decision<br />

F1<br />

F2<br />

F3<br />

F4<br />

…<br />

F18<br />

Phase 1<br />

Incentive<br />

Phase 2<br />

Conception<br />

Phase 3<br />

Proposal<br />

Phase 4<br />

Participation Decision<br />

Phase 5<br />

Sustainability<br />

Figure 2: Conceptual Framework for EIS Participation in LGAs<br />

4. REFERENCES<br />

[1] KURNIA, S. AND JOHNSTON, R.B. 2000. The need for a<br />

processual view of inter-organizational systems adoption. The<br />

Journal of Strategic Information Systems 9, 295-319.<br />

[2] ROGERS, E.M. 1995. Diffusion of innovations. Free Pr, .<br />

[3] HUANG, S.M., CHANG, I.C., LI, S.H. AND LIN, M.T. 2004.<br />

Assessing risk in ERP projects: identify and prioritize the factors.<br />

Industrial Management & Data Systems 104, 681-688.<br />

[4] SALMERON, J.L. AND HERRERO, I. 2005. An AHP-based<br />

methodology to rank critical success factors of executive<br />

information systems. Computer Standards & Interfaces 28, 1-12.<br />

[5] SAATY, T.L. 1986. Axiomatic foundation of the analytic<br />

hierarchy process. Management science 841-855.

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