Researching the Future in Information Systems - IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference, Future IS 2011, Turku, Finland, June 6-8, 2011, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference "Researching the Future", Future IS 2011, held in Turku, Finland, in June 2011. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 4 panels and workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized into 6 topical sections: how the future and the past are connected and inter-related; critical view of the future; technological futures; the future of information technology and work-related practices in health care; the future of industrial and institutional practices and outcomes through information technology; and the future of critical realism in IS research.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference "Researching the Future", Future IS 2011, held in Turku, Finland, in June 2011. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 4 panels and workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized into 6 topical sections: how the future and the past are connected and inter-related; critical view of the future; technological futures; the future of information technology and work-related practices in health care; the future of industrial and institutional practices and outcomes through information technology; and the future of critical realism in IS research.

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• Assisted by: Mike Chiasson (Editor), Janice Degross (Editor), Janice I. Degross (Editor), Ol Henfridsson (Editor), Ola Henfridsson (Editor), Helena Karsten (Editor), Helena Karsten et al (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783642446443
• ISBN: 978-3-642-44644-3
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 18 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Illustrations: XI, 316 p.
• Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; C, computer science, Information Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Theory of Computation, Computers and Society, Management of Computing and Information Systems, IT Operations, Application software, Computer Communication Networks, Computers, Maintenance & repairs, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Computers and civilization, Management information systems, Internet searching, User interface design & usability, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, User interfaces (Computer systems), Computer communication systems, Network hardware, Computation by Abstract Devices