The Past and Future of Information Systems

Kim Viborg Andersen, Morten Thanning Vendelo0750661410, 9780750661416, 9781417537150

Taking the recent discussions on the status of information systems as a discrete discipline as its starting point, The Past and Future of Information Systems draws together many of the pioneers of IS research, to give their own perspectives and insights to the debate. This reflective text looks back on the last 30 years of IS research, as well as glancing towards the future, ensuring that it will be of great interest to anyone working within the IS field.

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Table of contents :
Team DDU……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 8
1 Introduction: adventuring into the past and the future……Page 12
2 Prototypes are not pilots (and vice versa): reflecting on a 25 year old idea……Page 18
3 Piloting socio-technical innovations……Page 24
4 Forming a contingent, multi-disciplinary and ethical approach to IS development……Page 40
5 Analysis and design of information systems: a knowledge quality perspective……Page 54
6 Why stuff happens: explaining the unintended consequences of using IT……Page 72
7 ERP manuscripts of accounting and information systems……Page 106
8 Technology and the design of work revisited……Page 122
9 Are human factors?human re-visited……Page 134
10 human-centred?computing: a new perspective?……Page 148
11 The study of information technology in developing countries……Page 160
12 Growth-nodes in a knowledge-based Europe:a research roadmap……Page 174
13 Knowledge-as-relation: an IT outlook on the future of academic institutions……Page 214
References……Page 228
About the authors……Page 270
About the editors……Page 282
Index……Page 284