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• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2024
• Published date: 01 January 2016
• Date: 01 January 2016

Strategic Change: Briengs in Entrepreneurial Finance

Strat. Change 25 (2016) CONTENTS

Second Special Issue on the Strategic Impact of IT Deployment

Volume 25 Number 1 January 2016

3 The Strategic Impact of Information Technology Deployment, Part II

Gareth R.T. White, Paul Jones, and Paul Beynon-Davies

e implementation of information technologies has increasing importance in all aspects of life.

7 A Resource-Based View of the Build/Buy Decision: Emergent and Rational Stepwise

Models of Strategic Planning

Julian Sims, Philip Powell, and Richard Vidgen

Two ideal models of strategy development are identied: one is rational stepwise; the other is emergent,

ex-post, relying on experimentation where strategy is used to legitimize what has already been accomplished.

27 Relationship Banking in Practice: Perspectives from Retired and Serving Current Retail

Branch Managers

Mark Durkin and Roisin Kerr

As the banking industry continues to go through dramatic change, this study explores the views and perspectives

of retired managers in a case bank with respect to how relationship management in retail branch banking has

changed over the last 50 years.

45 Social Inclusion through ICT: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to ICT Use

Dan Taylor and Gary Packham

Creative approaches to ICT training and development can help to overcome barriers to ICT adoption and usage,

leading to increased social inclusion.

61 Internal Electronic Information as a Competitiveness-Enhancing Resource in German

Automotive Industry Suppliers

Alexander Bakos, Christopher Miller, Gary Packham, David Pickernell, and Brychan omas

In German automotive industry suppliers, internal electronic information (IEI) satises the requirements of

being a competitiveness-enhancing resource.

81 Knowledge Acquisition in Information System Development: A Case Study of System

Developers in an International Bank

Gareth R.T. White, Glenn Charles Parry, and Aneka Puckering

System developers quickly acquire knowledge of the benets and limitations of system development approaches

and this knowledge enables them to adopt or adapt methodologies according to the scope and scale of projects.