Teaching plan

Lecture 01/09-2003: Introduction

Readings:

Conceptualization of IS

Lee A., (1999), Inaugural Editor's Comment, _MIS Quarterly_, Vol. 23, No.1

Dimensions of Investigations

Robey D., (1996), Research Commentary: diversity in Information Systems Research, _Information Systems Research_, Vol. 7, No. 4

IT Strategy Crisis

Carr N.G., (2003), IT doesn't matter, _Harvard Business Review_, May

Brown J.S., (2003), Does IT matter?, _Harvard Business Review_, May

Methdology Crisis

Avison D., Fitzgerald B., (2003), Where Now for Development Methodologies?, _Communication of the ACM_, Vol. 46, No. 1

Ciborra C., (1997), De Profundis? Deconstructing the concept of strategic alignment, _Scandinavian Seminar in Information Systems, IRIS 20_, Oslo

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Lecture 08/09-2003: Sytems Development - Theories and concepts

Readings:

Andersen N.E., (1990), "What is Systems Development?", Ch. 3 in Professional Systems Development, pp.37-64, Prentice Hall

(This reading is available as paper copy)?

Lecture 15/09-2003:

Metaphors of Organization

Organizational_Theories

Readings:

Feldman, M. and March, J. Information in Organizations as Signal and Symbol. Administrative Science Quarterly, 26, pp 171-186 (1981)

Secondary readings:

Morgan, G. Images of organizations, 1997, London: Sage?

Bjerknes G., Bratteteig T., User Participation and Democracy: A Discussion of Scandinavian Research on Systems Development, Scandinavia Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2

Greenbaum, J. & M. Kyng. Introduction: Situated Design, pp 1-24 in Greenbaum & Kyng (eds): Design at work. Cooperative design of computer systems, Lawrence erlbaum, Hillsdale 1991

Floyd, C. Outline of a Paradigm Change in Software Engineering, pp 191-210 in Bjerknes, Ehn & Kyng (eds) Computers and Democracy. A Scandinavian Challenge, Avebury, Aldershot 1987?

Hanseth, O., From Systems and Tools to Networks and Infrastructure - from Design to Cultivation, 2002, Working Paper

Hanseth, O., The Economics of Standards, in From Control to Drift, Claudio Ciborra Ed., 2000, OUP, Chapter 4, pp. 56-70.

Ciborra, C., A Critical Review of Literature on the Management of Corporate Information Infrastructure, in From Control to Drift, Claudio Ciborra Ed., 2000, OUP, Chapter 4, pp. 15-40.?

Mintzberg, H. Mintzberg on Management. Inside Our Strange World og Organizations, Chapter 6: Deriving Configurations (pp. 95-115, The Free Press, London 1989

Humphrey, W.S. Managing Technical People, Chapter 19: Integration and Disintegration (pp. 211-223) and Chapter 23: The Change Process (pp. 261-270), Addison-Wesley, Reading. Mass. 1997?

Malone, Thomas W., JoAnne Yates, and Robert I. Benjamin, (1987), Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies, Communications of the ACM, vol. 30, no. 6, June 1987, pp. 484-497

William G. Ouchi, (1980), Markets, Bureaucracies and Clans, Administrative Science Quarterly, 25: 129-41

Ciborra, C., (1985), Reframing the Role of Computers in Organizations - The Transaction Costs Approach, ICIS 1985

Secondary Readings:

Ciborra, C. Teams, markets and systems: Business innovation and information technology, 1993, Cambridge University Press?

Baskerville R.L., (1999), Investigating Information Systems with Action Research, Communications of the AIS, Vol. 2, Article 19

Braa J., Monteiro E., Sahay S., (submitted), Networks of Action - sustainable health information systems across developing countries, Working paper submitted to MISQ?

Monteiro, E. Actor-network theory. In: C. Ciborra (ed.), From control to drift, pp. 71 - 83.

Monteiro, E. and Heps?, V. Diffusion of infrastructure: mobilisation and improvisation In Information systems: current issues and future challenges , Proc. IFIP WG 8.2 & 8.6, 1998, pp. 255 - 274.

Monteiro, E. Monsters. In: Planet Internet , 1999, pp. 239 - 249.

Cockburn, Cynthia (1992) "The circuit of technology: gender, identity and power" in Silverstone & Hirsch (eds.) Consuming Technologies: Media and information in domestic spaces. London and New York: Routledge.

Newman, Susan (1998) "Here, There and Nowhere at All : Distribution, Negotiation, and Virtuality in Postmodern Ethnography and Engineering", Knowledge and Society: Researches in Science and Technology, Vol 11, pp. 253-257?

Notes on Structuration Theory.

Readings:

Walsham, G. Organizational Change: Context and Process, in Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations (1993), Chapter 3, pp 52-71

Orlikowski, W. 1992. The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organisations, Organization Science, 3(3), 398-427.

Sahay S.,Walsham G., (1997), Social Structure and managerial agency in India, _Organization Studies_, Vol 18 No. 3

Secondary Readings:

Albuquerque de V. Borges K, Sahay S., (2000), GIS sor the public sector: Experiences from the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, _Information Infrastructure and Policy_, Vol. 6, 129-155

Braa J., Nermunkh C., (1997), Health Information Systems in Mongolia: a difficult process of change, _IFIP 9.4_?

Lecture by Knut Rolland

Readings:

Rolland, KH. The Boomerang Effect in Design and Use of Information Infrastructures Submitted to the Information and Organizational Journal (2003)

Secondary readings:

Rolland, KH. and Monteiro, E. 2002. Balancing the Local and the Global in Infrastructural Information Systems. The Information Society Journal,Vol. 18, No. 2., pp. 87-100.?

Braa J., Hedberg C., (2002), The struggle for District-Based Health Information Systems, The Information Society, Vol. 18?