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Handbook of critical information systems research : theory and application / edited by Debra Howcroft, Eileen M. Trauth.

Contributor(s): Trauth, Eileen Moore | Howcroft, Debra.
Publisher: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Pub., 2005Description: xiv, 426 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1843764784 (hbk.).Subject(s): Management information systems -- Research | Management information systems -- Social aspects | Information technology -- Social aspects | Critical theoryDDC classification: 658.4038
Contents:
1. Choosing critical IS research -- Part I Theory: 2. Basic assumptions of the critical research perspectives in information systems. - 3. Theoretical approaches for researching power and information systems: the benefit of a Machiavellian view - 4. Are social constructivist approaches critical? The case of IS failure - 5. Taking a critical linguistic turn: using critical discourse analysis for the study of information systems - 6. Against rules: the ethical turn in information systems - 7. Management fashions and information systems - 8. Flexibility, freedom and women's emancipation: a Marxist critique of at-home telework - 9. Critical management studies: towards a more mature politics - 10. The wrong trousers? Beyond the design fallacy: social learning and the user -- Part II Theory and application: 11. Critical engagement: why, what and how? - 12. Towards critical imterpretivism in IS research - 13. Consuming passions in the 'global knowledge economy' - 14. Rationalities and emotions in IS innovation - 15. Evaluating e-governance projects in India: a focus on micro-level implementation - 16. Rethinking urban poverty: forms of capital, information technology and enterprise development - 17. 'Global but local': mediated work in global business organizations - 18. Competing rationalities: a critical study of telehealth in the UK.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Choosing critical IS research -- Part I Theory: 2. Basic assumptions of the critical research perspectives in information systems. - 3. Theoretical approaches for researching power and information systems: the benefit of a Machiavellian view - 4. Are social constructivist approaches critical? The case of IS failure - 5. Taking a critical linguistic turn: using critical discourse analysis for the study of information systems - 6. Against rules: the ethical turn in information systems - 7. Management fashions and information systems - 8. Flexibility, freedom and women's emancipation: a Marxist critique of at-home telework - 9. Critical management studies: towards a more mature politics - 10. The wrong trousers? Beyond the design fallacy: social learning and the user -- Part II Theory and application: 11. Critical engagement: why, what and how? - 12. Towards critical imterpretivism in IS research - 13. Consuming passions in the 'global knowledge economy' - 14. Rationalities and emotions in IS innovation - 15. Evaluating e-governance projects in India: a focus on micro-level implementation - 16. Rethinking urban poverty: forms of capital, information technology and enterprise development - 17. 'Global but local': mediated work in global business organizations - 18. Competing rationalities: a critical study of telehealth in the UK.