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Title Complexity and IT design and evolution / guest editors, Edoardo Jacucci, Ole Hanseth and Kalle Lyytinen
Published Bradford, England : Emerald Group Pub., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (116 pages)
Series Information technology & people, 0959-3845 ; v. 19, no. 1
Information technology & people (West Linn, Or.) ; v. 19, no. 1
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Information technology.
Management information systems.
Management Information Systems
information technology.
COMPUTERS -- Data Transmission Systems -- Electronic Data Interchange.
COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- General.
Information technology
Management information systems
Form Electronic book
Author Jacucci, Edoardo
Hanseth, Ole, 1954-
Lyytinen, Kalle, 1953-
ISBN 1845449339
9781845449339