Major Currents in Information Systems
, by Leslie Willcocks
- ISBN: 9781412922623 | 1412922623
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/8/2008
The last thirty years have seen a dramatic and rapid development in Information and Communications Technologies. Scholarly research into the discipline has grown apace and this three volume set represents the range, quality, methodological approaches and practices that this scholarly research has pointed to. Compiled by two internationally acclaimed scholars in discussion with a first class editorial advisory board, the seminal and cutting edge articles in this collection bring together all the various strands in the discipline and include technology oriented as well as organizationally or socially oriented papers. Topics covered are as follows: - The Infrastructure of Information Systems - Information Systems Development - Technological Design Science Research
| Information Systems Infrastructure | |
| Introduction | |
| Foundations | |
| The Legacy of LEO: Lessons from an English tea and cake company's pioneering efforts in information systems | |
| Some Approaches to the Theory of Information Systems | |
| A Program for Research in Management Information Systems | |
| From Management Information to Information Management | |
| Defining the Boundaries of Computing across Complex Organizations | |
| Research Approaches | |
| The Experience of Systems Design: A hermeneutic of organizational action | |
| Studying Information Technology in Organizations: Research approaches and assumptions | |
| Interpretive Case Studies in IS Research: Nature and method | |
| A Set of Principles for Conducting and Evaluating Interpretive: Field Studies in Information Systems | |
| A Confessional Account of an Ethnography about Knowledge Work | |
| Combining IS Research Methods: Towards a pluralist methodology | |
| Evaluating Research: Roles of the IT Artifact, Generalization, History and Critique | |
| Research Commentary - Desperately Seeking the 'IT' in IT Research: A call to theorizing | |
| Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research | |
| The Legacy of LEO: Lessons learned from an English tea and cake company's pioneering efforts | |
| Doing Critical Research in Information Systems: A case of theory and practice not informing each other | |
| Information Systems Development | |
| Introduction | |
| Conceptual Bases | |
| Four Paradigms of Information Systems Development | |
| Methodology | |
| The Fetish Technique: Methodology as a social defense | |
| Formalized Systems Development Methodologies: A critical perspective | |
| The Fiction of Methodological Development: A field study of information systems development | |
| Amethodical Systems Development: The deferred meaning of systems development methods | |
| Ontology and Structure | |
| An Ontological Analysis of the Relationship Construct in Conceptual Modeling | |
| Capturing the Complexity in Advanced Technology Use: Adaptive structuration theory | |
| Users | |
| Reconceptualizing Users as Social Actors in Information Systems Research | |
| A Social Process Model of User-Analyst Relationships | |
| Outcomes | |
| Information Technology Implementation Research: A technological diffusion approach | |
| Information Systems Success: The quest for the dependent variable | |
| Intergration | |
| The Adoption and Design Methodologies of Component-based Enterprise Systems | |
| Inside a Software Design Team: Knowledge acquisition, sharing, and integration | |
| The Brave New World of Development in the Internetwork Computing Architecture (InterNCA): or how distributed computing platforms will change systems development | |
| Design Science Theories and Research Practices | |
| Introduction | |
| Design Science Theory and Practice | |
| Design Science in Information Systems Research | |
| Systems Development in Information Systems Research | |
| A Design Theory for Systems that Support Emergent Knowledge Processes | |
| Information Systems ans Systems Modeling | |
| Semantic Conflict Resolution Ontology | |
| A Framework for Analysis of Data Quality Research | |
| Database Systems Design | |
| Database Allocation in a Distributed Environment: Incorporating a concurrency control mechanism and queueing costs | |
| Knowledge and Information Intergration | |
| Context Interchange: New features and formalisms for the intelligent integration of information | |
| On Heterogeneous Database Retrieval: A cognitively-guided approach | |
| Data Warehousing and Mining | |
| What Makes Patterns Interesting in Knowledge Discovery Systems | |
| Network and Telecommunications Systems | |
| SIP-based Enterprise Converged Network for Voice/Video over IP: Implementation and evaluation of components | |
| Decision Support Systems | |
| Metagraphs: A tool for modeling decision support systems | |
| Workflow Systems | |
| Dynamic Routing and Operational Controls in Workflow Management Systems | |
| Electronic Commerce Systems | |
| Analysis and Design of Business-to-Consumer Online Auctions | |
| Management of Information Systems | |
| Introduction | |
| IS Governance | |
| Framing the Frameworks: A review of IT governance research | |
| Don't Just Lead: Govern: How top performing firms govern IT | |
| IS Leadership | |
| The Evolving Role of the CIO | |
| Creating IS Business Value | |
| IT-Dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review and synthesis of the literature | |
| Techno-change Management: Using IT to drive organizational change | |
| Measuring is Business Value | |
| Measuring Organizational IS Effectiveness: An overview and update of senior management perspectives | |
| Development of Measures to Assess the Extent to which an Information Technology Application Provides Competitive Advantage | |
| Is Adoption and Use | |
| A Review of the Predictors, Linkages, and Biases in IT Innovation Adoption Research | |
| Institutional Factors in IT Innovation | |
| Is Sourcing | |
| The Core Capabilities Framework for Achieving High Performing Back Offices | |
| Transforming A Back-Office Function: Lessons from BAE systems' experience with an enterprise partnership | |
| Project Management | |
| Why Software Projects Escalate: The importance of project management constructs | |
| Towards the Development of a Social Capital Approach to Evaluating Change Management Interventions | |
| Social and Organisational is Research | |
| Introduction | |
| Organisational Change, Structure, Design, Transformation | |
| Accounting for the Contradictory Organizational Consequences of Information Technology: Theoretical directions and methodological implications | |
| Information Technology and Internal Firm Organization: An exploratory analysis | |
| Investigating the Interplay between Structure and Information and Communication Technologies in the Real Estate Industry | |
| Business Process Reengineering in Theory and Practice: Business Paradise Regained? | |
| Transforming Work through Information Technology: A comparative case study of geographic information systems in county government | |
| The Role of IT in the Transformation of Work: A comparison of post-industrial | |
| Narratives of Change: Discourse, technology and organization | |
| Organisation - Culture, Power, Ethics and Gender | |
| A Review of Culture in IS Research: Toward a theory of IT culture conflict | |
| More on Myth, Magic and Metaphor: Cultural insights into the management of information technology in organisations | |
| Politics and Pain in Managing Information Technology: A case study from insurance | |
| On the Im)possibility of Ethics in a Mediated World | |
| Empowerment or Enslavement? A case of process-based organizational change in Hong Kong | |
| A Decade of Neglect: Reflecting on gender and IS new technology | |
| Gendered Patterns in Computing Work in the Late 1990s | |
| Information Systems - Globalization and Developing Countries | |
| Introduction | |
| Theoretical Perspective on Ict Innovation Under the Condition of Globalization | |
| Embedded knowledge and offshore software development | |
| Toward Contextualized Theories of Trust: The role of trust in global virtual teams | |
| Institutionalization does not Occur by Decree: Institutional obstacles in implementing a land administration system in a developing country | |
| The Link Between ICT and Economic Growth in the Discourse of Development | |
| Ict in Developing Countries | |
| An Information Company in Mexico: Extending the resource-based view of the firm to a developing country context | |
| Managing IT for Business Innovation: Issus of culture, learning, and leadership in a Jamaican insurance company | |
| Information Systems and Developing Countries: Failure, success and local improvisations | |
| Governance Lessons from the Experience of Telecentres in Kerala | |
| Considering Culture in Ict Innovation | |
| Designing and Implementing Culturally-Sensitive IT Applications: The interaction of culture values and privacy issues in the Middle East | |
| Implementing GIS Technology in India: Some issues of time and space | |
| Cross-cultural Software Production and Use: A structurational analysis | |
| Taking Culture Seriously: ICTs, cultures and development | |
| Trends and Emerging Issues | |
| Global e-Readiness - for what? Readiness for e-Banking | |
| Environment and Policy Factors Shaping Global e-Commerce Diffusion: A cross-country comparison | |
| ICANN and Internet Governance: Leveraging technical coordination to realize global public policy | |
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