Bricolage, care and information
Subtitle: Claudio Ciborra's legacy in information systems research
By: [edited by] Chrisanthi Avgerou ... [et al.].
Contributors: Avgerou, Chrisanthi.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780230220737
Subjects: Ciborra, Claudio; Management information systems; Information resources management
Description: "Claudio Ciborra was one of the most innovative thinkers in the field of information systems. This book explains the intellectual contribution of Ciborras work in a substantial introductory chapter, contains the most significant of his articles, and provides a sample of research that draws from his ideas"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Information Systems and the quest for meaning; title: G.F. LanzaraTRACING CIBORRA'S THOUGHT: FROM INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS TO PHENOMENOLOGY The Mind Or The Heart? It Depends on (The Definition of) The Situation; title: C. CiborraImprovisation As Mood; title: C. CiborraImbrication of representations: Risk and digital technologies; title: C. CiborraInterpreting e-government and development: efficiency, transparency or governance at a distance? C. Ciborra From Tool to Gestell: Agendas for managing the information infrastructure; title: C. Ciborra and O. HansethThe Platform Organization: recombining strategies, structures, and surprises; title: C. CiborraFormative contexts and information technology: understanding the dynamics of innovation in organizations; title: C. Ciborra and G. F. Lanzara Organizational learning and core capabilities development: the role of IT; title: C. Ciborra and R. AndreuFrom thinking to tinkering: the grassroots of strategic information systems; title: C. CiborraReframing the Role of Computers in Organizations: The Transactions Costs Approach; title: C. CiborraMarkets, Bureaucracies and Groups in the information Society: An Institutional Appraisal of the Impacts of Information technology; title: C. CiborraBUILDING ON HIS LEGACYClimbing the Learning Ladder to a Phenomenological View; A. RescaHospitality, Improvisation and Gestell: A Phenomenology of Mobile Information; title: M. Brigham and L. D. IntronaThe Hospitality Metaphor as a theoretical lens to understand the process of ICT adoption; title: A. Zanela SaccolThe Validity of the Improvisation Argument in the Implementation of Rigid Technology: The Case of ERP Systems; A. Elbanna Object Lessons and Invisible Technologies; E. A. Whitley and M. Darking Control Devolution as Information Infrastructure Design Strategy: A Case Study of a Content Service Platform for Mobile Phones in Norway; title: P. Nielsen and M. Aanestad Transaction Costs and Information Systems: Does IT Add Up? A. CordellaDispositioning IT all: a theory for thriving without models; I. Angell and F. Ilharco .