<p><P>Over the past 20 years, the field of information systems has grown dramatically in theoretical diversity and global reach. This growth is reflected in the language that policy makers and organizational stakeholders use when they talk about their IT plans. As information technology penetrates f
Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work: Proceedings of the IFIP WG8.2 working conference on information technology and changes in organizational work, December 1995
β Scribed by Wanda J. Orlikowski, Geoff Walsham, Matthew R. Jones, Janice I. Degross (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 444
- Series
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work: Images and Reflections....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Emperorβs New Information Economy....Pages 13-17
Panel....Pages 18-20
Reducing the Need for Computer-Based Information Systems in Healthcare Through the Use of Self-Contained Organizational Units....Pages 21-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Business Process Reengineering Reappraised: The Politics and Technology of Forgetting....Pages 39-61
Process Reengineering, Information Technology and the Transformation of Accountability: The Remaindering of the Human Resource?....Pages 62-88
The COMIS Plan: IT-Mediated Business Reengineering in Telecom Australia during the 1960s....Pages 89-106
Contradictions among Stakeholder Assessments of a Radical Change Initiative: A Cognitive Frames Analysis....Pages 107-130
Assessing Employee Turnover Intentions Before/After BPR....Pages 131-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Transforming Organizations Through Systems Analysis: Deploying New Techniques for Organizational Analysis in IS Development....Pages 157-176
Debates in IS and CSCW Research: Anticipating System Design for Post-Fordist Work....Pages 177-196
Strategic Change in Financial Services: The Social Construction of Strategic IS....Pages 197-212
The Nature and Processes of IT-Related Change....Pages 213-234
Panel....Pages 235-238
The Second-Order Security Dilemma....Pages 239-249
Boxes, Non-Human Stakeholders and the Translation of IT Through Mediation....Pages 250-271
Embodying Information Systems....Pages 272-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Social Theory and the Study of Computerized Work Sites....Pages 295-307
From Work to Activity: Technology and the Narrative of Progress....Pages 308-324
Social Shaping of Information Infrastructure: On Being Specific about the Technology....Pages 325-343
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Infrastructure and Organizational Transformation: Classifying Nursesβ Work....Pages 344-370
Madness and Organization: Informed Management and Empowerment....Pages 371-393
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Disassembling Frames on the Assembly Line: The Theory and Practice of the New Division of Learning in Advanced Manufacturing....Pages 397-418
Panel....Pages 419-422
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
Designing for Freedom in a Technical World....Pages 425-441
Back Matter....Pages 443-443
β¦ Subjects
Information Storage and Retrieval; IT in Business; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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