Critical management perspectives on information systems [[electronic resource] /] / Carole Brooke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783094003321
• Autore: Brooke Carole
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009
• ISBN: 1-136-44148-4; 1-282-73756-2; 9786612737565; 0-08-094168-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4038011
• Soggetti: Information resources management; Information resources; Critical theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Critical Management Perspectives on Information Systems; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Author Biographies; PART I In Search of Critical IS Research; Chapter 1 The Punch and Judy of Critical IS Research; 1.1 THAT IS THE WAY TO DO IT! OR IS IT?; 1.2 BEING FRUITFUL: THE NEED FOR CRITICAL INQUIRY IN IS; 1.3 IN SEARCH OF THE NATURE OF CRITICAL INQUIRY IN IS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE CHAPTERS; 1.4 SOME REFLECTIONS AT LAST; Chapter 2 Critical Research and Ethics; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 CRITICAL RESEARCH IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS; 2.3 THE ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL RESEARCH IN IS; 2.4 CONCLUSIONChapter 3 Practically Critical: Making the Critical Approach More Useful; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 THE PROBLEM OF EMANCIPATION AND POWER; 3.3 THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM: DUALISTIC GROUND-MOTIVES; 3.4 CONTRIBUTION FROM HABERMAS: COMMUNICATIVE ACTION; 3.5 ROOT OF THE PROBLEMS IN TCA: REDUCTION; 3.6 THE CONTRIBUTION OF DOOYEWEERD: ENRICHING THE CRITICAL APPROACH; 3.7 SITUATING THE CRITICAL APPROACH; 3.8 SOME REFLECTIONS; PART II Critical IS Empirical Studies; Chapter 4 ; Participatory and Emancipatory Information Systems Development: Principles, Practices and Pitfalls; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 PARTICIPATORY AND EMANCIPATORY IS DEVELOPMENT4.3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; 4.4 A STORY OF ISID DEVELOPMENT; 4.5 DISCUSSION: THE PARTICIPATORY AND EMANCIPATORY NATURE OF ISID DEVELOPMENT; 4.6 EXPLORING ISID'S EMANCIPATORY NATURE; 4.7 (UN)CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS; Chapter 5 ERP Adoption - What Do They Say About It?; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY; 5.3 RATIONALITY TYPES AND THEIR APPLICATION; 5.4 RESEARCH APPROACH; 5.5 DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODEL; 5.6 REVIEWING THE MODEL; 5.7 CONCLUSION; Chapter 6 Distortions in the Media: A Critical Analysis of Learning Technology Macro Discourse; 6.1 INTRODUCTION6.2 DIVERSITY IN APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; 6.3 HABERMASIAN VALIDITY CLAIMS AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; 6.4 METHODS IN ACTION; 6.5 FINDINGS; 6.6 ANALYSIS; 6.7 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH; Chapter 7 Semiotics and Information Technology Strategy; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 STRUCTURALISM: A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING TEXTS; 7.3 POST-STRUCTURALISM AND POST-MODERNISM; 7.4 CONCLUSION; Chapter 8 The Self-Ethnography as a 'Critical' Approach to Researching ICT Diffusion; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS OF THE SE; 8.3 SE IN CONTRAST; 8.4 THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND SE8.5 SPECIFIC APPLICATION OF THE SE LIBRARY 1 AND VIRTUAL 1; 8.6 THREE CRITICAL ISSUES IN SE; 8.7 FRAMING SE CRITICALITY; 8.8 SCEPTICISM TOWARDS TAKEN FOR GRANTED ASSUMPTIONS; 8.9 CONCLUSIONS: THE VALUE OF THE SE; Chapter 9 Information Systems and Power: A Foucauldian Perspective; 9.1 INTRODUCTION; 9.2 FOUCAULT AND POWER; 9.3 POWER AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS; 9.4 THE CASE STUDY; 9.5 THE CASEMIX INFORMATION SYSTEM; 9.6 CHANGE AGAIN; 9.7 DISCUSSION; 9.8 CONCLUSION; PART III Review and Critique; Chapter 10 Enamouring, Provoking and Imagining: Three Lenses of Critical Information Systems Research?
• Sommario/riassunto: Critical Management Perspectives on Information Systems provides a coherent set of reference points to show students and researchers the organizational issues of information systems in theory, method and practice. Combining fresh and insightful contributions from lead researchers in the field, the book illustrates the diversity of approaches to critical research, presents practical examples and demonstrates the lessons learnt from applying a critical approach. Exploring the management and organizational issues of information systems from a range of critical theory vi