Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology: IFIP TC8 WG8.2 International Working Conference on the Social and Organizational Perspective on Research and Practice in Information Technology June 9-11, 2000, Aalborg, Denmark / Edition 1

by Richard Baskerville, Jan Stage, Janice I. DeGross

Overview

The articles in this book constitute the proceedings papers from the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference, "IS2000: The Social and Organizational Perspective on Research and Practice in Information Technology," held June 1 0-12, 2000, in Aalborg, Denmark. The focus of the conference, and therefore this book, is on the basic aim of the working group, namely, the investigation of the interrelationships among four major components: information systems (IS), information technology (IT), organizations, and society. This basic social and organizational perspective on research and practice in information technology may have evolved substantially since the founding of the group, for example, increasing the emphasis on IS development. The plan for the conference was partially rooted in the early WG 8.2 traditions, in which working conferences were substantially composed of invited papers. For IS2000, roughly half of the paper presentations were planned to be invited; the remaining half were planned to be double-blind refereed in response to a "Call For Papers." Invited papers were single-blind reviewed in order to provide the authors with pre-publication feedback and comments, along with the opportunity to revise their papers prior to its final incorporation in this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792378365
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	04/30/2000
Series:	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology , #41
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	532
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

1 Discourses on the Interaction of Information Systems, Organizations, and Society: Reformation and Transformation.- 1: Reforming the Fundamentals.- 2 The Moving Finger: The Use of Social Theory in WG 8.2 Conference Papers, 1975–1999.- 3 Socio-technical Design: An Unfulfilled Promise or a Future Opportunity.- 4 The Limits of Language in Doing Systems Work.- 2: Transforming the Fundamentals.- 5 Information Systems Conceptual Foundations: Looking Backward and Forward.- 6 Horizontal Information Systems: Emergent Trends and Perspectives.- 7 Expanding the Horizons of Information Systems Development.- 3: Reforming the Classical Challenges.- 8 Evaluation in a Socio-technical Context.- 9 Collaborative Practice Research.- 10 Process as Theory in Information Systems Research.- 4: Transforming Toward New Challenges.- 11 Toward an Integrated Theory of IT-related Risk Control.- 12 Individual, Organizational, and Societal Perspectives on Information Delivery Systems: Bright and Dark Sides to Push and Pull Technologies.- 13 Globalization and IT: Agenda for Research.- 5: Reformation of Conceptualizations.- 14 Studying Organizational Computing Infrastructures: Multi-method Approaches.- 15 Information Systems Research at the Crossroads: External Versus Internal Views.- 16 The New Computing Archipelago: Intranet Islands of Practice.- 6: Transformation of Conceptualizations.- 17 Information Technology and the Cultural Reproduction of Social Order: A Research Paradigm.- 18 The Screen and the World: A Phenomenological Investigation into Screens and Our Engagement in the World.- 19 Developing a Virtual Community-based Information Systems Digital Library: A Proposal and Research Program.- 7: Reforming Automation.- 20 Representing Human and Non-human Stakeholders: On Speaking with Authority.-21 Implementing Open Network Technologies in Complex Work Practices: A Case from Telemedicine.- 22 Machine Agency as Perceived Autonomy: An Action Perspective.- 8: Transforming Automation.- 23 Some Challenges Facing Virtually Colocated Teams.- 24 MOA-S: A Scenario Model for Integrating Work Organization Aspects into the Design Process of CSCW Systems.- 25 Constructing Interdependencies with Collaborative Information Technology.- 9: Transforming into New Shapes of Technology.- 26 The Role of Gender in User Resistance and Information Systems Failure.- 27 Limitations and Opportunities of System Development Methods in Web Information System Design.- 28 Lessons from a Dinosaur: Mediating IS Research Through an Analysis of the Medical Record.- 10: Panels on Research Methods and Distributed Organizations.- 29 Addressing the Shortcomings of Interpretive Field Research: Reflecting Social Construction in the Write-up.- 30 Learning and Teaching Qualitative Research: A View from the Reference Disciplines of Anthropology and History.- 31 Successful Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Information Systems: Does Healthcare Serve as a Model for Networked Organizations?.- 32 Standardization, Network Economics, and IT.- Index of Contributors.