Requirements engineering—exploring the influence of power and Thai values

T Thanasankit

European Journal of Information Systems, 2002, vol. 11, issue 2, 128-141

Abstract: This paper explores the impact of Thai social status and hierarchical decision-making processes during Requirements Engineering (RE) in business information systems development projects. The paper illustrates the interaction of RE processes and national culture and shows that culture can change the way processes are implemented, rather than process changing culture. Thai culture is naturally inherent in Thai daily life and Thais bring that into their work information practices. The concepts of power in Thai culture contributes toward hierarchical forms of communication and hierarchical relationships between systems analysts and decision-making process in Thai software houses, especially during RE, where information systems (IS) requirements need to be established for further development. The research shows that power significantly influences the decision making process and the construction of social status between clients and systems analysts in Thailand. The hierarchical structure of Thai organisations also contributes to a bureaucratic, elongated decision-making process during information systems development (ISD). Understanding the influence of power in Thai culture on RE will assist multinational IS consulting organisations to select, adapt, better manage, or change RE process methodologies.

Date: 2002
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000423 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:tjisxx:v:11:y:2002:i:2:p:128-141

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/tjis20

DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000423

Access Statistics for this article

European Journal of Information Systems is currently edited by Par Agerfalk

More articles in European Journal of Information Systems from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().