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How do development actors do “ICT for development”? A strategy-as-practice perspective on emerging practices in Ghanaian agriculture
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Karanasios, Stan and Slavova, Mira (2019) How do development actors do “ICT for development”? A strategy-as-practice perspective on emerging practices in Ghanaian agriculture. Information Systems Journal, 29 (4). pp. 888-913. doi:10.1111/isj.12214 ISSN 1350-1917.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12214
Abstract
This paper examines how development actors within the Ghanaian agricultural sector enact information and communication technology (ICT) in their day‐to‐day outreach practices with smallholder farmers. We draw on an in‐depth qualitative case study, informed by the theoretical perspective of “strategy‐as‐practice” to answer the research question: “what ICT‐mediated strategic practices are used by development actors in the Ghanaian agriculture sector?” The research findings reveal that (1) the activities of development actors are meshed within a network of interdependencies; (2) the enacted strategic practices reflect the trade‐off between novelty of content and novelty of the technologies used to deliver it; and lastly, (3) the praxis of development actors for doing ICT for development consists of hybrid strategies, combining bottom‐up approaches consistent with farmers' indigenous smallholder logic, with top‐down imperatives framing agriculture “as a business” and nurturing value‐chain integration. Consequently, our research points to the impact of ICT initiatives as step‐wise and attained over the long term, rather than disruptive and attained in the immediate term.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Information Systems Journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1350-1917 | ||||||||
Official Date: | July 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 29 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 888-913 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/isj.12214 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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