scholarly journals “Standard Bibles” and Mediators as a Way of Software Development Organizations to Cope with the Multiplicity and Plurality of Standards

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Ronny Gey ◽  
Andrea Fried
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Internal Standard ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Increasing Demand

This paper focuses on the appearance and implementation of process standards in software development organizations. In particular, it shows interest in the way organizations handle the plurality and multitude of process standards they are faced with in a modern working environment. The process how organizations respond to environmental challenges like the increasing demand for process standards we call metastructuring. Based on the metastructuring approach by Orlikowski et al. (1995) it explores the process of internal standard-use mediation by an in-depth single case study. The case company develops step by step a dedicated institutional entity reacting to standard complexity and customer pressure. As a result, mediators shape extensively the standard use of the employees in the case company. They develop a process library which integrates different standards. This work sheds light on how this metastructuring process is accomplished, which areas of metastructuring regarding process standards can be found and explore different types of metastructuring activities by the involved standard-use mediators.

Metastructuring for Standards

2022 ◽  
pp. 1272-1295
Author(s):  
Ronny Gey ◽  
Andrea Fried
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Automotive Technology ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Organizational Mechanisms

This chapter focusses on the appearance and implementation of process standards in software development organizations. The authors are interested in the way organizations handle the plurality of process standards. Organizations respond by metastructuring to the increasing demand for standardizing their development processes. Standards metastructuring summarizes all organizational mechanisms for facilitating the ongoing adaption of global standards to the organizational context. Based on an in-depth single case study of a software developing organization in the automotive technology sector, the authors found four areas of metastructuring, four roles for standard mediation, and four types of metastructuring activities. With the case study, they encourage further research that proves standards in use and how organizations respond to the challenges of standardization.

scholarly journals Metastructuring for Standards

2018 ◽  
pp. 252-276
Author(s):  
Ronny Gey ◽  
Andrea Fried
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Automotive Technology ◽  
Global Standards ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Organizational Mechanisms

This chapter focusses on the appearance and implementation of process standards in software development organizations. The authors are interested in the way organizations handle the plurality of process standards. Organizations respond by metastructuring to the increasing demand for standardizing their development processes. Standards metastructuring summarizes all organizational mechanisms for facilitating the ongoing adaption of global standards to the organizational context. Based on an in-depth single case study of a software developing organization in the automotive technology sector, the authors found four areas of metastructuring, four roles for standard mediation, and four types of metastructuring activities. With the case study, they encourage further research that proves standards in use and how organizations respond to the challenges of standardization.

scholarly journals An EFL Teacher’s Code Switching in a Young Learners’ Class

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Khaerunnisa
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Task Instruction ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Young Learners ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Positive Functions

This paper presents the results of a single case study of an EFL teacher’s code switching which involved three languages including English, Indonesian, and Javanese in a young learners’ class. More specifically, this qualitative study aimed to analyze the teacher’s types of code switching and functions of her code switching in the teaching and learning process. Data from classroom observations, teacher’s interview, students’ interview, and students’ questionnaire showed that all of the teacher’s code switching were conversational and based on the structure of her switching; she did inter-sentential, intra-sentential, and tag switching. Further, those different types of code switching served four positive functions for the EYL teaching. Those included strategy to deliver clear material explanations, strategy to deliver clear task instruction, strategy to give encouragement, and strategy for disciplining the students.

Collaboration and patient safety at an emergency department – a qualitative case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Helene Meldgaard Pedersen ◽  
Kurt Rasmussen ◽  
Regine Grytnes ◽  
Kent Jacob Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Daily Work

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how conflicts about collaboration between staff at different departments arose during the establishment of a new emergency department and how these conflicts affected the daily work and ultimately patient safety at the emergency department. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative single case study draws on qualitative semi-structured interviews and participant observation. The theoretical concepts “availability” and “receptiveness” as antecedents for collaboration will be applied in the analysis. Findings Close collaboration between departments was an essential precondition for the functioning of the new emergency department. The study shows how a lack of antecedents for collaboration affected the working relation and communication between employees and departments, which spurred negative feelings and reproduced conflicts. This situation was seen as a potential threat for the safety of the emergency patients. Research limitations/implications This study presents a single case study, at a specific point in time, and should be used as an illustrative example of how contextual and situational factors affect the working environment and through that patient safety. Originality/value Few studies provide an in-depth investigation of what actually takes place when collaboration between professional groups goes wrong and escalates, and how problems in collaboration may affect patient safety.

Who Has Potatoes?

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
Keith V. Bletzer
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Farm Labor ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Migrant Work

Migratory farm labor like other forms of migrant work both in and outside agriculture impedes on the opportunity to make choices. The following essay explores particular phases in the life of one man (a single case study) and examines how he considers turning points in his life that led to a long period of substance use, both as an immigrant in the country and as a working man in his home country, followed by a cessation of use and the beginning stages of recovery. / Para el migrante, viajar en busca de trabajo es díficil, ya sea que trabaje en agricultura o en otras labores. Este ensayo examina ciertas etapas en la vida de un hombre (estudio de un solo caso) que examina los cambios que le han ocurrido durante un período en que él consumía grandes cantidades de alcohol en los estados y en su país, seguido por un período de sobriedad (no tomaba alcohol, no usaba drogas) en este país en que él comienza una etapa de rehabilitación.

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