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Informationen zum Autor Robert D. Galliers was appointed Bentley University's inaugural University Distinguished Professor in July 2009, having served as Bentley's Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs since 2002. He was previously Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics; Professor of Business Management Systems and Dean of Warwick Business School; and Professor and Head of the School of Information Systems at Curtin University, Western Australia. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, has published over 70 articles in many leading international journals, and authored or co-authored 11 books, including: Exploring Information Systems Research (Routledge, 2007); the bestseller Strategic Information Management (Routledge, 2009); Rethinking Management Information Systems (OUP, 1999), and IT and Organizational Transformation (Wiley, 1998).Wendy L. Currie holds a PhD in Management and a BSc in Sociology. Currie is on the editorial board of ten academic journals and regularly publishes her research work. She currently serves as Hon Treasurer for the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine charity and is a Trustee of the Cardiovascular Research Trust. She regularly consults on the interface between business, management and technology and has recently completed assignments with Microsoft, Mouchel, 7 Layer, Deloitte, the Church of England and Barclays Capital. Klappentext This Handbook provides critical, interdisciplinary contributions from leading international academics on the theory and methodology, practical applications, and broader context of Management Information Systems, as well as offering potential avenues for future research Zusammenfassung This Handbook provides critical, interdisciplinary contributions from leading international academics on the theory and methodology, practical applications, and broader context of Management Information Systems, as well as offering potential avenues for future research Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Background 1: M Lynne Markus: Foreword: Historical Reflections on the Practice of Information Management and Implications for the Field of MIS 2: Rudy Hirschheim and Heinz K Klein: Setting the Scene: Tracing the History of the Information Systems Field Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives in MIS Introduction 3: John Mingers: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth: High Quality Research in Information Systems 4: Peter Checkland: Systems Thinking and Soft Systems Methodology 5: Matthew Jones: Structuration Theory 6: Wendy L Currie: Institutional Theory of Information Technology 7: Leslie P Willcocks and Eleni A Lioliou: 'Everything is Dangerous': Rethinking Michel Foucault and the Social Study of ICTs 8: Bernd Stahl: Critical Social Information Systems Research 9: Lucas D Introna: Hermeneutics and Meaning-making in Information Systems 10: Lucas D Introna and Fernando M Ilharco: Phenomenology, Screens and Screenness: Returning to the World Itself 11: Nathalie Mitev and Debra Howcroft: Post-structuralism, Social Shaping of Technology and Actor Network Theory: What Can They Bring to IS research? Part III: Rethinking Theory in MIS Practice Introduction 12: Robert D. Galliers: Further Developments in Information Systems Strategising: Unpacking the Concept 13: Yolande E Chan and Blaize Horner Reich: Rethinking Business-IT Alignment 14: Michael Wade, Gabriele Piccoli and Blake Ives: IT-dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review, Synthesis and an Extension of the Literature 15: Erica Wagner and Sue Newell: Changing the Story Surrounding Enterprise Systems to Improve our Understanding of What Makes ERP Work in Organizations 16: Sue Newell and Cynthia Clark Williams: A Multi-theoretic Approach to IT Governance: The Need for Engagement as well as Alignment ...
