INF9200 - Selected Theoretical Topics in Information Systems Development
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Readings |
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September 8 Monday Session 1 1300-1500hrs |
What is IS theory? |
? John Van Maanen Style as theory. Organization Science, 6, 1, 1995, 132-144. (Full text) ? John Van Maanen, Confessional Tales, in Tales of the field: On writing ethnography, University Of Chicago Press, 1988. (Full text) ? John Van Maanen, Some Notes on the Importance of Writing in Organization Studies, in J.I. Cash and P. Lawrence (eds.), The Information Systems Research Challenge: Qualitative Research Methods, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1989, 27-33. (Full text) ? Wanda Orlikowski and Suzanne Iacono: Research Commentary: Desperately seeking the "IT"in IT Research - A Call to Theorizing the IT Artifact. (Full text) ? Eric Monteiro and Ole Hanseth: Social shaping of information infrastructure: on being specific about the technology. In Orlikowski, Wanda J., Geoff Walsham, Matthew R. Jones and Janice I DeGross. Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work. Chapman & Hall, 1995, p.325 - 343. (Full text) |
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September 9 Tuesday Session 1 0900-1130hrs |
Theorizing technology |
? Langdon Winner: Autonomous Technology, MIT Press, 1977. Introduction only (Full text) ? Orlikowsky and Robey ?Information Technology and the Structuring of Organizations? Information Systems Research 2:2, 1991 (Paper) ? Barley, S.R. ?Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments? Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 78-108 (Paper on jstore) Robey and Bodreau ?Accounting for the Contradictory Organizational Consequences of Information Technology: Theoretical Directions and Methodological Implications? Information Systems Research Vol 10, No. 2, June 1999 (Full text) ? Lucy Suchman: Human and Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions. Cambridge University Press. 2007 INTRODUCTION (Paper) ? Steps towards and ecology of Infrastructure ? Complex problems in design and access for large-scale collaborative systems. Susan Leigh Star, Karen Ruhleder (Full text) ? Robert Pirsig, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance ? Hanseth, Ole (2010). From Systems and Tools to Networks and Infrastructures - from Design to Cultivation: Towards a design Theory of Information Infrastructures., In Jonny, Holmstr?m (ed.), Industrial Informatics design, Use and Innovation.. IGI Global. ISBN 978-1-61520-692-6. 11. s 122 - 156
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September 9 Tuesday Session II 1300-1500hrs
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Theorizing institutions |
? Thornton and Ocasio ?Institutional Logics? in SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism, Greenwood, Oliver, Sahlin, Suddaby (eds), 2008, Sage publications (Full text)
? Douglass North ?Institutions, institutional change and economic performance? Chapters 1 & 3 (Paper)
? Sahay, S?b?, Mekonnen, Gizaw ?Interplay of institutional logics and implications for deinstitutionalization: Case study of HMIS implementation in Tajikistan?, Information Technologies and International Development (Full text)
? Brian & Sundeep 2009, Deinstitutionalization in the context of software export policymaking in Costa Rica, Journal of Information Technology
? Feldman and March ?Information in organiztions as signal and symbol?, Administrative Science Quarterly 26 (2) 1981 (Full text)
? Piotti, Chilundo, Sahay An Institutional Perspective on Health Sector Reform and the process of reframing health information systems: Case Studies from Mozambique (Full text) |
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September 10 Wednesday Session I 0900-1130hrs
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Theorizing participative design |
? Braa & Sahay, Health information System Programme: Participatory Design within the HISP network
? Kristen Nygaard (1996): "Those Were the Days"? Or "Heroic Times Are Here Again"? Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems Vol 8 Issue 2, pp 91- 108 (Full text)
? Lucy Suchman 2002 Practice ? Based Design of Information Systems: Notes from the Hyperdeveloped World, The Information Society.
? Puri, Sahay & Lewis 2007, Building participatory HIS networks: A case study from Kerala, India, Information and Organization.
? Bowker & Star, 2000. Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences (Web access) chapters 1-3 |
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September 10 Wednesday Session II 1300-1500hrs
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Theorizing knowledge |
? Lam, A. 2000 ?Tacit Knowledge, Organizational Learning and Societal Institutions: An Integrated Framework? Organization Studies 2000, 21/3 (Full text)
? Timmermans, S. and Berg, M. 1997. Standardization in Action: Achieving Local Universality through Medical Protocols. Social Studies of Science 27, p. 273-305. (Full text)
? Puri, 2007. ?Integrating Scientific with Indigenous Knowledge: Constructing Knowledge Alliances for Land Management in India?, MISQ special issue (Full text)
? Orlikowski & Scott 2008. Sociomateriality: Challenging the Separation of Technology, Work and Organization, Annals of the Academy of Management, 2, 1, 2008: 433-474 |
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September 11 Thursday Session I 0900-1130hrs
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Theorizing development |
? Journal for IT, Institutional entrepreneurs, global/local
? Sen ?Development as Freedom? Introduction and Chapter 1 (Full text) chapter 2
? Escobar ?Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World? Chapters 1 & 2
? Walsham and Sahay: Research on information systems in developing countries: current landscape and future prospects (Full text)
? Castells ?Globalization and Identity in the Network Society? Prometheus 04 (Paper) |
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September 11 Thursday Session II 1300-1500hrs
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Theorizing scaling and sustainability |
? Bruno Latour ?Chapter 2: Circulating references?, in Pandora?s Hope, Harvard University Press 1999, pp. 24-79 (Full text - large)
?Scaling of architectures, chapter book
? Braa, J., Monteiro, E. and Sahay, A. (2004): ?Networks of action: sustainable health information systems across developing countries?, MIS Quarterly, 28 (3). pp. 337-362 (http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~ericm/misq.pdf )
? Charles Doran: When building North America, Deepen before Widening, in A New North America: Cooperation and Enhanced Interdependence, ed Doran and Drischler, Westport 1996 (full text) |
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September 12 Friday Session I 0900-1130hrs
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Theorizing power |
? Sahay, Monteiro and Aanestad ?Configurable politics: trying to integrate health information systems in developing countries?, Journal of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 10 Special Issue pp. 399-414, May 2009 (Full text)
? Power and Trust: Critical factors in the adoption and use of electronic data interchange, Paul Hart, Carol Saunders
? Leiser Silva: Epistemological and theoretical challenges for studying power and politics in information systems. Inf. Syst. J. 17(2): 165-183 (2007) (full text)
? Sahay & Puri, 2008, "The Dynamics of Corruption and ICT Projects: Case Study from the Public Health System in India". ICIS 2008 Proceedings. Paper 51. |