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Should be available at Akademika this week.

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Introduction to Mintzberg?

Braa J., Monteiro E., Sahay S., (2004), Networks of Action: Sustainable Health Information Systems Across Developing Countries, MIS Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 3.?

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Organization Design?

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Situation Configuration?

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Configurations?

Avison D., Fitzgerald G., (2003), "Information Systems Development", Ch. 1-6, McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition

The book is recommended but not mandatory

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ISD in Complex Org 1?

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

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

Walsham G., Symons V., Waema T., (1988), 'Information Systems as Social Systems: Implications for Developing Countries', _Information Technology for Development_, Vol. 3, No. 3.

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ISD in Complex Org 2

Instructions for final Essay?

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Assignment Feedback?

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.

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

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Actor Network Theory?

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.

Secondary Reading:

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

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

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Structuration Theory?

The Economist - About standards

Ole Hanseth, 2002, From systems and tools to networks and infrastructures, Working Paper

Ole Hanseth, Eric Monteiro and Morten Hatling. Developing information infrastructure: The tension between standardization and flexibility.Science, Technology and Human Values. Vol. 21 No. 4, Fall 1996, 407-426.

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IS & Standardization?

Bjerknes G., Bratteteig T., User Participation and Democracy: A Discussion of Scandinavian Research on Systems Development, Scandinavia Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1

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

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Scandinavian Approach?

The same as the last lecture.?