CRITICAL ISSUES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Edited by
R.J. Boland
Department of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
R.A. Hirschheim
Templeton College, Oxford University
Wiley, Chichester, 1987
Information systems research addresses a wide range of issues
concerning the technology, development and management of information
systems, as well as their organizational and social impacts.
This specially commissioned volume brings together and critically
analyses a number of important issues currently facing information
systems research.
Issues considered to be of major importance in the field have
been identified, noted for their shortcomings, conceptual confusions
and failed promises, in an attempt to gain a new insight into
future developments.
This book is not an attempt to unify the field or provide explicit
boundaries but to move the field ahead by analyzing what has been
accomplished, or failed to be accomplished in the past. Critical
Issues In Information Systems Research should be of great value
to all those concerned with the way information systems are developed
and managed-both academics and practitioners-and of particular
interest to young researchers who in their turn will raise more
critical issues.
Contents: Part I - A Focus on Information Systems Practice:
1. A Taxonomic Perspective of Information Systems Development:
Theoretical Constructs and Recommendations Kalle Lyytinen;
2. Semantics Ronald Stamper; 3. Towards a Framework for
Systems Analysis Practice John Banbury; 4. Understanding
the Elements of System Design Jon A. Turner; 5. Software
Engineering Productivity Models for Management Information System
Development D. Ross Jeffery; 6. Managerial Expert Systems
and Organizational Change: Some Critical Research Issues Enid
Mumford; 7. Information Systems Strategy Formulation Michael
J. Earl; Part II - A Focus on the Organizational and Social
Context of Information Systems: 8. Information Systems in Organization
Theory: A Review E. Burton Swanson; 9. Strategies for Research
Purpose and Time Frame Charles R. Franz and Daniel Robey;
10. Unifying the Research Fragmented Models of Information Systems
Implementation Tae H. Kwon and Robert W. Zmud; 11. Research
Agenda for a Transaction Cost Approach to Information Systems
Claudio U. Ciborra; 12. Social Change and the Future of
Information Systems Development Heinz K. Klein and Rudy Hirschheim;
13. Defining the Boundaries of Computing across Complex Organizations
Rob Kling; 14. The In-formation of Information Systems
Richard J. Boland, Jr.
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