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Rethinking management information systems : an interdisciplinary perspective / edited by Wendy Currie and Bob Galliers.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 510 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191589720
  • 0191589721
  • 0585134790
  • 9780585134796
  • 9780198775331
  • 0198775334
  • 9780198775324
  • 0198775326
  • 1299397204
  • 9781299397200
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking management information systems.DDC classification:
  • 658.4/038/011 21
LOC classification:
  • HD30.213 .R47 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 85.20
Online resources:
Contents:
10. Accounting as a Representational Craft: Lessons for Research on Information Systems / Richard J. Boland, Jr. -- pt. III. Developing and Implementing Change Programmes.
11. Information Systems Development / David E. Avison and Guy Fitzgerald. 12. Deciding the Future for IS Failures: Not the Choice You Might Think / Chris Sauer. 13. A Historical Analysis of Implementing IS at J. Lyons / Frank.
14. Information Technology Outsourcing: What Problems are we Trying to Solve? / Mary C. Lacity and Rudy Hirschheim.
15. Information Systems and Strategic Change: A Critical Review of Business Process Re-engineering / Bob Galliers and Jacky Swan -- pt. IV. Organisation and Management Issues.
16. The Cultural Context of Information Management / Robert I. Tricker. 17. Hybrid Managers: An Example of Tunnel Vision and Regression in Management Research / Wendy L. Currie and Ian A. Glover.
18. Rethinking Capabilities and Skills in the Information Systems Function / David F. Feeny and Leslie p. Willcocks. 19. The Management of Knowledge Workers / Harry Scarbrough.
3. Systems Thinking / Peter Checkland. 4. Research on Information Systems Development in Scandinavia: Unity in Plurality / Juhani Iivari and Kalle Lyytinen. 5. Structuration Theory / Matthew Jones.
6. A Theory of Information Systems Based on Improvisation / Claudio U. Ciborra -- pt. II. Information Systems, Strategic Management, and Performance Evaluation. 7. Strategy-Making in the Information Age / Michael J. Earl.
8. Thinking the Unthinkable: What Happens if the IS Field as we Know it Goes Away? / M. Lynne Markus. 9. IS Evaluation: A Process for Bringing Together Benefits, Costs, and Risks / Barbara Farbey, Frank Land and David Targett.
Land.
pt. I. Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. 1. Researching MIS / Allen S. Lee. 2. Routinisation, Re-engineering, and Socio-technical Design: Changing Ideas on the Organisation of Work / Enid Mumford.
Summary: This book examines influential ideas within Management Information Systems (MIS). Leading international contributors summarize key topics and explore a variety of issues currently being discussed in the field. They re-visit influential ideas such as socio-technical theory, systems thinking, and structuration theory and demonstrate their relevance to newer ideas such as re-engineering, hybrid management, knowledge workers, and outsourcing. In locating MIS within an interdisciplinarycontext, particularly in the light of rapid technological changes, this book will form the link between past and f.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

10. Accounting as a Representational Craft: Lessons for Research on Information Systems / Richard J. Boland, Jr. -- pt. III. Developing and Implementing Change Programmes.

11. Information Systems Development / David E. Avison and Guy Fitzgerald. 12. Deciding the Future for IS Failures: Not the Choice You Might Think / Chris Sauer. 13. A Historical Analysis of Implementing IS at J. Lyons / Frank.

14. Information Technology Outsourcing: What Problems are we Trying to Solve? / Mary C. Lacity and Rudy Hirschheim.

15. Information Systems and Strategic Change: A Critical Review of Business Process Re-engineering / Bob Galliers and Jacky Swan -- pt. IV. Organisation and Management Issues.

16. The Cultural Context of Information Management / Robert I. Tricker. 17. Hybrid Managers: An Example of Tunnel Vision and Regression in Management Research / Wendy L. Currie and Ian A. Glover.

18. Rethinking Capabilities and Skills in the Information Systems Function / David F. Feeny and Leslie p. Willcocks. 19. The Management of Knowledge Workers / Harry Scarbrough.

3. Systems Thinking / Peter Checkland. 4. Research on Information Systems Development in Scandinavia: Unity in Plurality / Juhani Iivari and Kalle Lyytinen. 5. Structuration Theory / Matthew Jones.

6. A Theory of Information Systems Based on Improvisation / Claudio U. Ciborra -- pt. II. Information Systems, Strategic Management, and Performance Evaluation. 7. Strategy-Making in the Information Age / Michael J. Earl.

8. Thinking the Unthinkable: What Happens if the IS Field as we Know it Goes Away? / M. Lynne Markus. 9. IS Evaluation: A Process for Bringing Together Benefits, Costs, and Risks / Barbara Farbey, Frank Land and David Targett.

Land.

pt. I. Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. 1. Researching MIS / Allen S. Lee. 2. Routinisation, Re-engineering, and Socio-technical Design: Changing Ideas on the Organisation of Work / Enid Mumford.

Print version record.

This book examines influential ideas within Management Information Systems (MIS). Leading international contributors summarize key topics and explore a variety of issues currently being discussed in the field. They re-visit influential ideas such as socio-technical theory, systems thinking, and structuration theory and demonstrate their relevance to newer ideas such as re-engineering, hybrid management, knowledge workers, and outsourcing. In locating MIS within an interdisciplinarycontext, particularly in the light of rapid technological changes, this book will form the link between past and f.

English.

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