Rethinking management information systems : an interdisciplinary perspective (Record no. 36690)

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ISBN 9780198775331
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ISBN 0198775334
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ISBN 9780198775324
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ISBN 0198775326
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Classification number 658.4038011
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Personal name Currie, Wendy (Editor)
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Title Rethinking management information systems : an interdisciplinary perspective
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Place of publication Oxford ;
Name of publisher Oxford University Press,
Year of publication 1999.
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Number of Pages xvii, 510 pages :
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General note Includes index
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Formatted contents note 10. Accounting as a Representational Craft: Lessons for Research on Information Systems / Richard J. Boland, Jr. --<br/>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 --<br/>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 --<br/>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.
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Summary, etc This text examines influential ideas within Management Information Systems (MIS). 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.
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Topical Term Management information systems.
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Personal name Galliers, Bob (Editor)
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Reference Main Library Main Library Reference 23/02/2001 Purchased 3375.00 658.4038011 RET 005769 Reference Books

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