Organizational Knowledge and Technology: An Action-Oriented Perspective on Organization and Information Systems - Hardcover

Magalhães, Rodrigo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184376282X ISBN 13: 9781843762829

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This book attempts to make sense of a new area of integrated study, namely information systems and information technology (IS/IT) and the organization. It also aims to bring this mix into the broader theme of complexity as applied to organization and management and to draw useful conclusions about how to organize and how to manage IS/IT in the knowledge era. The author argues in favour of a more action-oriented - as opposed to planning dominated - approach to information systems management.

Key topics discussed include: complexity, enacted cognition and autopoiesis applied to organizations; managerial action as a foil to the prevailing managerial paradigm; managerial action and the formation of cultural knowledge contexts in organizations and an holistic approach to information systems development. The book concludes with consideration of the problems surrounding epistemology.

Organizational Knowledge and Technology will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers working in the areas of technology, management, information systems and organizational science as well as information systems managers.

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About the Author

Rodrigo Magalhães, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Lisbon, Portugal

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184376282X
• ISBN 13: 9781843762829
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272