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

• Pubblicazione: Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (116 p.)
• Disciplina: 384.30218
• Soggetto topico: Information technology; Management information systems
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: El-MasryAhmed A
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Complexity and IT design and evolution
• ISBN: 1-280-50693-8; 9786610506934; 1-84544-933-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450464603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II