Peter Bou Saba

@article{bou_saba_1192,

title = {Soigner le mal par le mal : recherche-action sur la technique de l'inoculation pour limiter les résistances à un projet TI},

author = {Peter Bou Saba},

url = {https://www.cairn.info/revue-systemes-d-information-et-management-2020-3-page-87.htm},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-01},

journal = {Systèmes d'Information et Management},

volume = {25},

number = {3},

pages = {87-126},

abstract = {La littérature académique propose un large éventail de méthodes de gestion du changement visant à identifier et réduire les résistances liées aux projets TI. Alors qu'en psychologie et sociologie, l'originalité de la méthode de l'inoculation a su séduire chercheurs comme praticiens, celle-ci n'a été que peu testée dans le domaine des systèmes d'information. Elle postule que de la même manière qu'un individu peut être vacciné contre un virus, il peut également s'autoprémunir d'influences négatives en s'exposant aux arguments avancés par les détracteurs du projet. La réfutation, à cet effet, consiste à fournir des arguments à l'individu pour l'aider à soutenir son attitude et à être capable de rejeter d'autres contre-argumentations à venir. Cette recherche dévoile les résultats d'une recherche-action menée pendant 3 ans auprès d'une société de conseil au sein de laquelle l'implémentation d'un système d'aide à la décision a été associée à de forts comportements de résistance face auxquels la technique de l'inoculation a été expérimentée pour en limiter les effets. Les résultats tendent à confirmer la contribution de ladite méthode sur la préservation des attitudes positives des partisans avec un effet « boomerang » relatif sur les détracteurs.},

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@article{saba_1085,

title = {Hidden facets of IT projects are revealed only after deployment: The case of French agricultural cooperatives},

author = {Mario Saba and Peter Bou Saba and Antoine Harfouche},

url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ITP-06-2016-0144/full/html},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-02-05},

journal = {Information Technology & People},

volume = {31},

number = {1},

pages = {239-255},

abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to focus on an information technology (IT) deployment project in the specific field of agricultural cooperatives. It also aims to underline the importance of the IT implementation phase, but also the pre-implementation phase.},

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@article{bou_saba_1086,

title = {Using a decision support tool for R&D portfolio management: going beyond initial expectations},

author = {Peter Bou Saba and Stefan Brouwers},

url = {https://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id=81041},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-12-01},

journal = {EuroMed Journal of Management},

volume = {1},

number = {3},

pages = {224 - 236},

abstract = {This article studies the way in which a decision support tool (DST) is used by external management consultants in R&D portfolio management assignments. On this basis, this paper investigates a French consulting firm and one of its clients. The findings show that the DST, when used by consultants, tends to legitimise already-made decisions. Furthermore, the tool that defines which project is eligible to the French research tax credit came as a solution to homogenise the different interpretations of multiple consultants working for the same client.},

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@article{bou_saba_1087,

title = {Competitive innovation matrix': a framework for open innovation},

author = {Peter Bou Saba and Mario Saba and André Azouri},

url = {https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=78849},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-08-01},

journal = {EuroMed Journal of Management},

volume = {1},

number = {2},

pages = {149-162},

abstract = {The concept of open innovation encompasses a wide range of external actors that an organisation might need to share and acquire knowledge with. While there is much hype about open innovation, as of yet there is no framework to decide how open innovation might be useful. In our research we cite four theories linked with open innovation. Through the literature analysis, we develop a framework called 'competitive innovation matrix' for using open innovation within project development, at the very start of the process. The framework is to be tested in future empirical research work. We aim to highlight that open innovation, when applied prior to close innovation, would rather shift from being a risk to being an opportunity. In any case, when a firm share its ideas open, it would expect to receive others' ideas as well. Accordingly, we provide an overall framework for employing both open and closed innovation, one that shows how open innovation has clear benefits for sharing problem solving at the initial research phase of the project.},

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