Chrisanthi Avgerou, Claudio Ciborra, and Frank Land:
Introduction
Part I: Foundations
1: Claudio Ciborra: Encountering Information Systems as a
Phenomenon
2: Ian O.Angell and Fernando M. Ilharco: Solution is the Problem: A
Story of Transitions and Opportunities
3: Bruno Latour: On Using ANT for Studying Information Systems: A
(Somewhat) Socratic Dialogue
4: Saskia Sassen: Towards a Sociology of Information Technology
Part II: Theories at Work
5: Ole Hanseth: Knowledge as Infrastructure
6: Richard J. Boland, Jr.: An Ecology of Distributed Practice
Involving Knowledge Work
7: Eric Monteiro: Actor Network Theory and Cultural Aspects of
Interpretive Studies
8: Jannis Kallinkos: Farewell to Constructivism: Technology and
Context-Embedded Action
9: Chrisanthi Avgerou and Shirin Madon: Framing IS Studies:
Understanding the Context of IS Innovation
Part III: Substantive Issues and Applications
10: Robert Hunter Wade: Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to
Development or New Form of Dependency
11: Steve Smithson and Prodromos Tsiavos: Re-Constructing
Information Systems Evaluation
12: Robert D. Galliers: Reflections on Information Systems
Strategizing
13: Richard L. Baskerville and Frank Land: Socially
Self-Destructing Systems
Chrisanthi Avgerou is Professor of Information Systems at the
London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main research
interests concern the relationship of information technology (IT)
to organizational change, and the role of IT in socio-economic
development. She is vice-chair of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on
social implications of IT and past chair of IFIP WG 9.4 on
computers in developing countries. Among her latest publications is
Information
Systems and Global Diversity (OUP, 2002). Claudio Ciborra is
Professor of Information Systems, Convenor of the Department of
Information Systems, and PwC Risk Management Professor at the
London School of
Economics and Political Science. His research has focused on issues
of technology, organization, strategy, and innovation. He also
teaches at IULM University, Milan and is Visiting Professor at Oslo
University. He is on the editorial board of a dozen academic
journals, has consulted widely, and is a member of a number of IFIP
working groups, including WG 8.2. He has published many articles
and books on information systems. His recent books include The
Labyrinths of Information: Challenging
the Wisdom of Systems (OUP, 2002). Frank Land, FBCS, started his
career in computing in 1953, working on the pioneering LEO Computer
for J. Lyons. He joined the London School of Economics and
Political
Science in 1967 to establish teaching and research in systems
analysis and was appointed Professor of Systems Analysis in 1982.
In 1986, he joined the London Business School as Professor of
Information Management. He retired in 1991 and received the title
Emeritus Professor at the LSE's Department of Information Systems
in 2002. He is also Visiting Professor at Leeds Metropolitan
University and his many other visiting professorships have included
the Wharton School and the University of Sydney.
He is past chairman of IFIP WG 8.2 and is on the editorial board of
a number of academic journals. In 2003, he received from the
Association for Information Systems the LEO Award for life-time
contribution to the IS discipline.
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