Emerging Themes in Information Systems and Organization Studies

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Emerging Themes in Information Systems and Organization Studies; Table of Contents; Biography of the Editors; Biography of Marco De Marco; Biography of the Contributors; Foreword; A Personal Note from the Editors; Part I IS Theory; The Eiderdown Project; Background; Initial Structure and Principles; First Release: "Lenzuolo"; Evolution: From Lenzuolo to Eiderdown; Concluding Thoughts: What Eiderdown is For; References; Managing Technochange: Strategy Setting, Risk Assessment and Implementation; Introduction and Theoretical Framework; Research Method; Case Study 1: Dow Corning Corporation

Case Study 2: Gruppo Manni HPFramework Development; References; A New Taxonomy for Developing and Testing Theories; Introduction; A New Taxonomy; The Taxonomy Introduced by Colquitt and Zapala-Phelan; Comparison Our Taxonomy With Colquitt and Zapata-Phelan's Taxonomy; Discussion; Conclusions; References; Thinking About Designing for Talking: Communication Support Systems; Introduction; Theories of Communication; The Task; A Model Linking Theory to Design; Going Beyond; Acknowledgment; References; Evaluation and Control at the Core: How French Scholars Inform the Discourse; Introduction

A French Typology of Core Disciplinary IssuesSix Conceptions Addressing the IS Core Within the French Scholarly Community; Competing French View on the Nature of an Information System; Conception One: Rationalist and Software Engineering Views: Rolland and Peaucelle; Conception Two: General System Theory View Embedded in Socio-technical System: LeMoigne; Conception Three: The Nature of an IS as Both Human and Social: Reix and Rowe; French Sociologists on the Topics of Control and Evaluation; Conception Four: Bourdieu's Critical Realism and Influence on IS Scholars

Conception Five: The Uncertainty Zone Enlarged by Social Actors: CrozierConception Six: Control and Agency: Latour and Foucault; Conclusion; References; Beyond Darwin: The Potential of Recent Eco-Evolutionary Research for Organizational and Information Systems Studies; Introduction; The Evolutionary Paradigm in Organizational and Management Studies; Procedures and Open Behaviors in Evolution Processes; Ecology of Knowledge. Imitation, Training, Trial-Error, Exploration, Tunnel Vision; Communities, Groups and Networks Eco-evolution. Evolution of Cooperation; Conclusions; References

Part II Construction of the IT ArtifactApproaches to Developing Information Systems; A Brief History of Information Systems Development; Contemporary Information Systems Development; Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM); References; Problem Analysis for Situational Artefact Construction in Information Systems; Introduction; Conceptual Foundations of Situational Artefact Construction; A Field Study Based Technique for Delineating the Design Problem and Understanding the Design Problem Class; Discussion: Economic Reasoning in Situational Artefact Construction; Acknowledgement; References

Regular Sparsity in OLAP System

10.1007/978-3-7908-2739-2 [DOI]

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