The mindless behaviours of the Data Governance Naïveté Trap: a case study

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dc.contributor.authorWalsh, Michael Joseph
dc.contributor.authorMcAvoy, John
dc.contributor.authorSammon, David
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-22T11:50:04Z
dc.date.available2026-05-22T11:50:04Z
dc.date.issued2026-04-19
dc.description.abstractAccess to quality data is crucial for business processes, and an effective Data Governance (DG) programme aims to ensure that this happens. However, an examination of industry literature suggests that the implementation of DG programmes continues to present challenges for practitioners. This is despite academic research having developed a large body of DG knowledge and potentially useful artefacts. This case study explores this disjoint by focusing on people’s behaviours and how they impact the DG programme. It surfaces root causes for the ineffectiveness of a DG programme. It emerges that a lack of constant review and revision of DG principles results in the organisation being caught in what we refer to as the DG Naïveté Trap.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidWalsh, Michael Joseph§0000-0002-2034-9301
dc.identifier.authororcidMcAvoy, John
dc.identifier.authororcidSammon, David§0000-0001-6138-0105
dc.identifier.citationWalsh, M. J., McAvoy, J. and Sammon, D. (2026) 'The mindless behaviours of the Data Governance Naïveté Trap: a case study', Journal of Decision Systems, 35(1), 2659227 (14pp). https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2026.2659227
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/12460125.2026.2659227
dc.identifier.issn1246-0125
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Decision Systems
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2034-9301/work/212217400
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-6138-0105/work/218168643
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18833
dc.identifier.volume35
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rights© 2026, the Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is notaltered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectData
dc.subjectGovernance
dc.subjectNaiveté
dc.subjectCasestudy
dc.subject[CUBS]
dc.titleThe mindless behaviours of the Data Governance Naïveté Trap: a case studyen
dc.typeArticle (Peer reviewed)
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