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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450464603321

Titolo

Complexity and IT design and evolution [[electronic resource] /] / guest editors: Edoardo Jacucci, Ole Hanseth and Kalle Lyytinen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006

ISBN

1-280-50693-8

9786610506934

1-84544-933-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 p.)

Collana

Information technology & people ; ; v. 19, no. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

El-MasryAhmed A

Disciplina

384.30218

Soggetti

Information technology

Management information systems

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.