Organizational and Social Perspectives on Information Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Discourses on the Interaction of Information Systems, Organizations, and Society: Reformation and Transformation

   1. Discourses on the Interaction of Information Systems, Organizations, and Society: Reformation and Transformation

      • Richard Baskerville, Jan Stage

      Pages 1-12

3. Reforming the Fundamentals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Moving Finger: The use of Social Theory in WG 8.2 Conference Papers, 1975–1999

      • Matthew Jones

      Pages 15-31

   3. Socio-Technical Design: An Unfulfilled Promise or a Future Opportunity?

      • Enid Mumford

      Pages 33-46

   4. The Limits of Language in Doing Systems Work

      • Richard J. Boland Jr.

      Pages 47-57

4. Transforming the Fundamentals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Information Systems Conceptual Foundations: Looking Backward and Forward

      • Gordon B. Davis

      Pages 61-82

   3. Horizontal Information Systems: Emergent Trends and Perspectives

      • Kristin Braa, Knut H. Rolland

      Pages 83-101

   4. Expanding the Horizons of Information Systems Development

      • Nancy L. Russo

      Pages 103-112

5. Reforming the Classical Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Evaluation in a Socio-Technical Context

      • Frank Land

      Pages 115-126

   3. Collaborative Practice Research

      • Lars Mathiassen

      Pages 127-148

   4. Process as Theory in Information Systems Research

      • Kevin Crowston

      Pages 149-164

6. Transforming Toward New Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

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   2. Toward an Integrated Theory of It-Related Risk Control

      • M. Lynne Markus

      Pages 167-178

   3. Individual, Organizational, and Societal Perspectives on Information Delivery Systems: Bright and Dark Sides to Push and Pull Technologies

      • Julie E. Kendall, Kenneth E. Kendall

      Pages 179-193

   4. Globalization and It: Agenda for Research

      • Geoff Walsham

      Pages 195-210

7. Reformation of Conceptualizations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Studying Organizational Computing Infrastructures: Multi-Method Approaches

      • Steve Sawyer

      Pages 213-231

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 ofthe 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.

• CSCW
• Change
• Imitation
• Intranet
• automation
• information system
• information technology
• innovation
• management
• organization
• production
• robot
• service-oriented computing
• technology

• Georgia State University, USA

  Richard Baskerville

• Aalborg University, Denmark

  Jan Stage

• University of Minnesota, USA

  Janice I. DeGross

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