... Systems development Competitive advantage On the outset, an academic may dismiss this book as a resource since it is not full of methodology and citations and employed mostly in the classroom, but that is not its strong suit; this book provides clear, solid definitions of some very technical...

...Lars Mathiassen Reports from a systems development research tradition in which emphasis is put on relating research activities to practice and on establishing fruitful collaboration between groups of researchers and practitioners. Describes and evaluates a specific research project in which a large...

.... During deinstitutionalization, practices and associated roles that have been “taken‐for‐granted”, “obvious”, or even “natural” are questioned, challenged and discredited in order to change or abandon them. For most organizations, “new” systems development require that existing technology, as well...

...Simon Rogerson; John Weckert; Chris Simpson The rapid advance of computer‐based technology has led to social policy vacuums. Most information systems development tools concentrate upon technical issues, and offer few if any guidelines that address the moral issues inherent in new application...

...Andreas I. Nicolaou Examines sources of control over information system development decisions. Although past research has examined sources of internal organizational control that were solely determined by technical/rational goals, this article analyzes the symbolic role of social institutions...

... and further research to resolve these difficulties is proposed. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Information technology Organizations Organizational change Professionals Systems development United Kingdom Organisations of all shapes and sizes are having to embrace information technology...

...D.E. Avison; A.T. Wood‐Harper; R.T. Vidgen; J.R.G. Wood Multiview was defined in 1985 and has been since refined to become an influential approach to information systems development. It has soft and hard aspects and, as a contingency approach, is not prescriptive but adapted to the particular...

... to introduce people to maps and do the actual mapping), but maps were used when we analysed the interviews. The interviews were tape‐recorded for exact reference to the quoted statements. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Co‐operation Design Product development Project management Systems development...

...Lucas D. Introna; Edgar A. Whitley Provides a critique of method‐ism ‐ the view that methodology is necessary and sufficient for information systems’ development success; method‐ism presupposes also that systems developers understand the value of methodology and will prefer to work with it rather...

...Lucas D. Introna Provides a critique of teleological information systems development methodologies. Argues that these methodologies lead to “dead” systems that make very little sense to their users. Presents the work of the architect Christopher Alexander as an example from another discipline...

... involved in complex systems development and learning, and research propositions to evaluate mobile any‐time, any‐place support. Baseline measurements have been obtained and early results support the value of mobile group support technology. Organizational work increasingly demands the completion...