Rethinking management information systems : an interdisciplinary perspective

By:

Currie, Wendy (Editor)

Contributor(s):

Galliers, Bob (Editor)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: xvii, 510 pages : illustrationsISBN:

9780198775331
0198775334
9780198775324
0198775326

Subject(s):

Management information systems

DDC classification:

658.4038011 RET

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 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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Includes 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.

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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