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| Doctorate Dissertation Research at University at Albany Expected completion – Spring 2009 Dissertation Title - Socio-technical Processes in Interorganizational Collaboration: The WTC Case Chair - Anthony M. Cresswell, Interim Director Dissertation Summary - This research explores the socio-technical
processes in interorganizational collaboration by extending
and elaborating a generic dynamic theory. The existing generic
dynamic theory offers dynamic hypotheses about causal relationships
between social processes and social accumulations from a study
of interagency information integration initiative. In order
to extend and elaborate this existing theory, a dataset from
another interagency collaboration will be used. The World Trade
Center response and recovery process had an enormous amount
of interagency collaboration in response to a very tragic event.
Researchers at Center for Technology in Government interviewed
29 responders who held positions at critical decision-making
points in the response and recovery process. This interview
dataset covers rich stories of interagency collaboration in
the context of information, technology and coordination. This
dissertation research will analyze the interview dataset based
in part on the dynamics described in the existing generic dynamic
theory. The final product will be a substantive theory of the
World Trade Center case in terms of the social processes, social
accumulations and their interactions in the information use
and information technology development. Narrative discussions
based on the case evidence will be used to develop a new causal
loop map. |
| Publications
Books Akcam, B.K. (1999) Internet for Crime Fighters, TBD Press, Ankara, in Turkish Papers Working Papers Thesis Software Technical Reports and Oral Presentations |
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