Emerging Themes in Information Systems and Organization Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. IS Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Eiderdown Project

      • Francesco Virili

      Pages 3-10

   3. Managing Technochange: Strategy Setting, Risk Assessment and Implementation

      • Lapo Mola, Andrea Carugati, Cyrus Gibson

      Pages 11-19

   4. A New Taxonomy for Developing and Testing Theories

      • Pertti Järvinen

      Pages 21-32

   5. Thinking About Designing for Talking: Communication Support Systems

      • Dov Te’eni

      Pages 33-43

   6. Evaluation and Control at the Core: How French Scholars Inform the Discourse

      • Frantz Rowe, Duane Truex

      Pages 45-61

   7. Beyond Darwin: The Potential of Recent Eco-Evolutionary Research for Organizational and Information Systems Studies

      • Francesca Ricciardi

      Pages 63-77

3. Construction of the IT Artifact

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Approaches to Developing Information Systems

      • David Avison, Guy Fitzgerald

      Pages 81-96

   3. Problem Analysis for Situational Artefact Construction in Information Systems

      • Robert Winter

      Pages 97-113

   4. Regular Sparsity in OLAP System

      • Kalinka Kaloyanova, Ina Naydenova

      Pages 115-123

4. ICT in Organizational Design and Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Business Process Management (BPM): A Pathway for IT-Professionalism in Europe?

      • Jan vom Brocke

      Pages 127-136

   3. The Contextual Nature of Outsourcing Drivers

      • Tapio Reponen

      Pages 137-143

   4. Information Models for Process Management – New Approaches to Old Challenges

      • Jörg Becker

      Pages 145-154

   5. Business Intelligence Systems, Uncertainty in Decision-Making and Effectiveness of Organizational Coordination

      • Antonella Ferrari

      Pages 155-167

   6. A Study of E-services Adoption Factors

      • Ada Scupola, Hanne Westh Nicolajsen

      Pages 169-179

   7. Environment and Governance for Network Management

      • Toshie Ninomiya, Nobuyuki Ichikawa, Yusho Ishikawa

      Pages 181-192

   8. Organisational Constraints on Information Systems Security

      • Maurizio Cavallari

      Pages 193-207

This book consists of an anthology of writings. The aim is to honour Marco to celebrate the 35th year of his academic career . The book consists of a collection of selected opinions in the field of IS. Some themes are: IT and Information Systems organizational impacts, Systems development, Business process management, Business organization, e-government, social impact of IT.

• Business Process Management
• Information Systems
• Organization Studies
• Social impact of IT
• business Organization

• Department of Management, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus, Denmark

  Andrea Carugati

• Verona, Italy

  Cecilia Rossignoli

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