The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems Critical Perspectives and New Directions

Management Information Systems (MIS) play a crucial role in an organization's operations, accounting, decision-making, project management, and competitive advantage. TheOxford Handbook of Management Information Systemstakes a critical and interdisciplinary view of the increasing complexity of these systems within organizations, and the strategic, managerial, and ethical issues associated with the effective use of these technologies. The book is organized into four parts: - Part I: Background - Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives in MIS - Part III: Rethinking Theory in MIS Practice - Part IV: Rethinking MIS Practice in a Broader Context The Handbook provides an introductory background to the discipline and a methodological and philosophical framework for discussion of key topics, before exploring the issues associated with MIS in practice and considering the broader context and future agenda of research in light of such concerns as sustainability, ethics, and globalization. Bringing together international scholars to focus on the theory and practice of MIS, this handbook provides a comprehensive resource for academics and research students in the fields of MIS, IS, Organizational Behaviour, and Management in general.

Robert D Galliers was appointed Bentley University's inaugural University Distinguished Professor in July 2009, having served as Bentley's Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs since 2002. He was previously Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics; Professor of Business Management Systems and Dean of Warwick Business School; and Professor and Head of the School of Information Systems at Curtin University, Western Australia. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, has published over 70 articles in many leading international journals, and authored or co-authored 11 books, including: Exploring Information Systems Research (Routledge, 2007); the bestseller Strategic Information Management (Routledge, 2009); Rethinking Management Information Systems (OUP, 1999), and IT and Organizational Transformation (Wiley, 1998).

Wendy L. Currie holds a PhD in Management and a BSc in Sociology. Currie is on the editorial board of ten academic journals and regularly publishes her research work. She currently serves as Hon Treasurer for the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine charity and is a Trustee of the Cardiovascular Research Trust. She regularly consults on the interface between business, management and technology and has recently completed assignments with Microsoft, Mouchel, 7 Layer, Deloitte, the Church of England and Barclays Capital.

Part I: Background
1. Foreword: Historical Reflections on the Practice of Information Management and Implications for the Field of MIS, M Lynne Markus
2. Setting the Scene: Tracing the History of the Information Systems Field, Rudy Hirschheim and Heinz K Klein
Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives in MIS
Introduction, Wendy L Currie
3. The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth: High Quality Research in Information Systems, John Mingers
4. Systems Thinking and Soft Systems Methodology, Peter Checkland
5. Structuration Theory, Matthew Jones
6. Institutional Theory of Information Technology, Wendy L Currie
7. 'Everything is Dangerous': Rethinking Michel Foucault and the Social Study of ICTs, Leslie P Willcocks and Eleni A Lioliou
8. Critical Social Information Systems Research, Bernd Stahl
9. Hermeneutics and Meaning-making in Information Systems, Lucas D Introna
10. Phenomenology, Screens and Screenness: Returning to the World Itself, Lucas D Introna and Fernando M Ilharco
11. Post-structuralism, Social Shaping of Technology and Actor Network Theory: What Can They Bring to IS research?, Nathalie Mitev and Debra Howcroft
Part III: Rethinking Theory in MIS Practice
Introduction, Robert D Galliers
12. Further Developments in Information Systems Strategising: Unpacking the Concept, Robert D Galliers
13. Rethinking Business-IT Alignment, Yolande E Chan and Blaize Horner Reich
14. IT-dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review, Synthesis and an Extension of the Literature, Michael Wade, Gabriele Piccoli and Blake Ives
15. Changing the Story Surrounding Enterprise Systems to Improve our Understanding of What Makes ERP Work in Organizations, Erica Wagner and Sue Newell
16. A Multi-theoretic Approach to IT Governance: The Need for Engagement as well as Alignment, Sue Newell and Cynthia Clark Williams
17. Rethinking Information Systems Security, Amy W Ray
18. Mobile IT, Carsten Sorensen
19. A Review of the IT Outsourcing Literature: Insights for Practice, Mary C Lacity, Shaji A Khan, and Leslie P Willcocks
Part IV: Rethinking MIS Practice in a Broader Context
Introduction, Robert D Galliers
20. Managing Knowledge Work, Jacky Swan
21. Rethinking Gender and MIS for the Twenty-first Century, Eileen M Trauth
22. Green Digits: Towards an Ecology of IT Thinking, Pierre Berthon, Philip DesAutels, Brian Donnellan, and Cynthia Clark Williams
23. Ethics and ICT, Simon Rogerson
24. IT, Globalization and Human Development: A Personal View, Geoff Walsham
25. Discourses on Innovation and Development in Information Systems in Developing Countries Research, Chrisanthi Avgerou
26. From Instrumentality to Emergence in Information Systems, Richard T Watson, Pierre Berthon, and Leyland F Pitt