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Complexity and IT design and evolution / guest editors: Edoardo Jacucci, Ole Hanseth and Kalle Lyytinen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Information technology & people ; v. 19, no. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology.
- Management information systems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (116 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The collection of papers in this e-book "Complexity and IT Design and Evolution" addresses complexity drawing upon multi-faceted, multi-theoretical lines of inquiry. Frameworks from complexity science, institutional theory, social science, philosophy, and recent thinking in science and technology studies (STS) are used as theoretical lenses to conceptualize and analyze complexity in IS and to offer ways to mitigate it.
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL BOARD; Introduction; Toward a complexity theory of information systems development; Interpreting socio-technical co-evolution; Fluids or flows? Information and qualculation in medical practice; Self-destructive dynamics in large-scale technochange and some ways of counteracting it; Information out of information: on the self-referential dynamics of information growth
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-50693-8
- 9786610506934
- 1-84544-933-9
- OCLC:
- 69661820
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