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Selected recent books |
These are some recent books written or edited by department members. Full details of the publications of department members, including journal articles, book chapters and conference papers can be found on the staff page.
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Chrisanthi Avgerou, Claudio Ciborra and Frank land (eds): The
Social Study of Information and Communication Technology - Innovation,
Actors, and Contexts Information systems is an area of research positioned between management studies and applied computing, where it is influenced by numerous kindred and reference disciplines. This book bring stogether a collection of papers that exemplify the current state of one of the strands of this hybrid field, the social study of information and communication technology. This is a collection of papers by members of the LSE Department of Information Systems and a number of their close collaborators from elsewhere. |
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Robert D. Galliers, and Dorothy E. Leidner, Strategic
Information Management: Challenges and Strategies in Managing Information
Systems, (third edn) Building on the success of the earlier editions of Strategic Information Management, this third edition draws on a wide range of contemporary articles by leading experts in North America and Europe, such as: Bob Benjamin, Michael Earl, Blake Ives, Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Lynne Markus, Edgar Schein and Leslie Willcocks. Each deals with aspects of the most important and pressing Information Systems Management themes.
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Claudio
Ciborra: The Labyrinths
of Information - Challenging the Wisdom of Systems 'Claudio Ciborra has a more detailed, nuanced, and sophisticated understanding
of the dynamics associated with information technology in today's organizations
than any scholar working in the field today. His work is grounded in
ultra realism, but his observations are interpreted through classical
schema that provide immense illumination. The effect is a series of
highly literate jewel-like essays that are intellectually fascinating
but could also change the life of any practitioner who bothered to read
and ponder.' -Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business
Administration, Harvard Business School; Author of In the Age of the
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Chrisanthi Avgerou: Information
Systems and Global Diversity This book studies the intertwined processes of information systems
implementation and organizational change within the current trend of
economic globalization. It highlights the significance of local context
and points out the institutional forces and the multiple rationalities
that influence the implementation and use of information technology
in diverse organizational settings. |
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Jannis Kallinikos:
The
Age of Flexibility – Managing Organizations and Technology The Age of Flexibility –
Managing Organizations and Technology addresses basic economic and organizational
implications associated with the diffusion of contemporary information
technologies and the economic and institutional change signified by
the close of the industrial age. The book is appropriate for basic courses
in Management, Organization Theory and Behavior, Information Systems,
Marketing, Sociology, Social Policy and Public Administration. |
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Ian Angell: The
New Barbarian Manifesto (How to Survive the Information Age) 'The New Barbarian Manifesto is a highly readable, hugely enjoyable hi-tech version of The Decline of the West.' GUARDIAN 'An apocalyptic, dystopian vision of the future which calls for radical action… Angell's thesis has the virtue of boldness.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A prophet of the 21st century.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY |
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Kristin Braa, Carsten Sørensenand Bo Dahlbom: Planet
Internet This edited volume presents 12 chapters each revealing a facet of how
the relationships between people and Information Technology are changing
in the Internet Era. The book asks a range of questions related to the
consequences of living with technology in the 21st Century based on
research conducted within the Internet Project between 1995 and 1999. |
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Claudio Ciborra: From
Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Global Information Infrastructures A revealing insight into the issues surrounding information infrastructure implementation in large, global corporations. Case study material from six different international corporations -- AstraZeneca, IBM, Norsk Hydro, Roche, SKF, and Statoil -- shows a complex picture of implementation, and one that cannot be interpreted using current management thinking. The author suggests that the economics of standards and increasing returns be joined with the perspectives from the social studies of science and technology to provide the fundamentals for a fresh view of the management of IT in global corporations. |
'Refreshing new scholarly ideas connected to everyday practice. A gold mine of theory and practice.' -Chris Argyris |
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