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New book: The Past and Future of Information Systems
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reflects the history of Information Systems (IS) as well as it is presenting core themes in the IS research field.
The book focuses on the following themes: IS Systems Development, Implementation of IS in business settings, The human factor in IS research and, Policy challenges and the field of IS.
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Improving practice
In the ice-breaker of this book, Michael Earl highlights that scholars of IS in Europe, and especially in Scandinavia, have always studied the IS systems development process and sought to improve practice; a central theme has been that of prototyping and pilots.
This is completed by Tilo Böhmann and Helmut Krcmar arguing that an important part of practice is how IT could be fitted into the working lives of the people that are going to use it and how individuals concerned best relate to the computer system.
An outlook for the IS research community
Using the historical account and the contributions to this book as our point of departure, we propose that the IS research field faces three central challenges across the themes, in order to deliver more effective IS and for the consolidation of the IS research community.
First, IS research must maintain its awareness and inclusion of activity-centric computing. The drift of IS from exclusively being large scale installations used by experts to being daily activity "implants" calls for still more disciplines to be brought to the IS research arsenal. Thereby it challenges the often management-centric and rational choice approach employed in much IS research.
Second, the scope and reach of IS will continue to grow. As a result the social-economic issues and global initiation of IS loom high on the agenda. The developing world indeed looked very different thirty years ago, but has proved to be a melting pot for production of hardware and outsourcing of yet more IT services and programming. This change implies that still more applications are developed and launched in what the IS community still is not studying intensively.
Third, more dynamic accumulation and transfer of knowledge from older to younger generations of IS researchers is still more critical. There is an urgent need for addressing the concern raised in this book, namely whether there has been sufficient means and people that have taken accumulation of knowledge as part of their research agenda. Already, this call is out and taken seriously at many levels: international academic IS journals, national and institutional level, and at the individual level. We propose that this will need to be taken even more seriously by writing more on this, but also by talking about and challenging this dimension in our research community.
Marie Wildt (ed.)
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| Professor Kim Viborg Andersen and Associate Professor Morten Thanning Vendelø belong to CBS' Department of Informatics. |
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The chapters in the book are written by 14 IS-researchers that have excelled within their subject and been exponents for ways to conduct research, stimulate diffusion of research, and initiate innovation in the IS research field. Also, the researchers have in one way or the other been involved in IS systems development and implementation, which are considered as the creation of the trees and fields of IS. The contributions to this book raise a number of stimulating issues as reflections of the past and the future of IS research.
All authors are colleagues of professor Niels Bjørn-Andersen and have been cooperating with CBS over the past 30 years.
Economics Library: Book Collection - Past and future of information systems, Butterworth-Heinemann, Edinburgh, 2004, 320 p. 442 pas
See also Butterworth-Heinemann
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Last opdated by Insights@CBS 18.03.2004 | Marts - 2004, nr. 1
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Marts 2004
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