Avgerou, Chrisanthi
Bricolage, Care and Information
1. Introduction Information Systems and the Quest for Meaning — An Account of Claudio Ciborra’s Intellectual Journey
Giovan Francesco Lanzara
Part I. Tracing Ciborra’s Thought: From Institutional Economics to Phenomenology
2. The Mind or the Heart? It Depends on the (Definition of) Situation
Claudio U. Ciborra
3. Improvisation as Mood
Claudio U. Ciborra
4. Imbrication of Representations: Risk and Digital Technologies
Claudio U. Ciborra
5. Interpreting E-government and Development: Efficiency, Transparency or Governance at a Distance?
Claudio U. Ciborra
6. From Tool to
Claudio U. Ciborra, Ole Hanseth
7. The Platform Organization: Recombining Strategies, Structures, and Surprises
Claudio U. Ciborra
8. Formative Contexts and Information Technology: Understanding the Dynamics of Innovation in Organizations
Claudio U. Ciborra, Giovan Francesco Lanzara
9. Organizational Learning and Core Capabilities Development: The Role of IT
Rafael Andreu, Claudio U. Ciborra
10. From Thinking to Tinkering: The Grassroots of Strategic Information Systems
Claudio U. Ciborra
11. Reframing the Role of Computers in Organizations: The Transactions Costs Approach
Claudio U. Ciborra
12. Markets, Bureaucracies and Groups in the Information Society: An Institutional Appraisal of the Impacts of Information Technology
Claudio U. Ciborra
Part II. Building on Ciborra’s Legacy
13. Knowledge: Climbing the Learning Ladder to a ‘Phenomenological’ View
Andrea Resca
14. Organizing Technology: Of Hospitality
Martin Brigham, Lucas D. Introna
15. The Hospitality Metaphor as a Theoretical Lens for Understanding the ICT Adoption Process
Amarolinda Zanela Saccol, Nicolau Reinhard
16. Rigid Technology and Improvised Implementation: The case of ERP Systems
Amany R. Elbanna
17. Object Lessons and Invisible Technologies
Edgar A. Whitley, Mary Darking
18. Control Devolution as Information Infrastructure Design Strategy: A Case Study of a Content Service Platform for Mobile Phones in Norway
Petter Nielsen, Margunn Aanestad
19. Transaction Costs and Information Systems: Does IT Add Up?
Antonio Cordella
20. Dispositioning IT All: Towards a Theory for Thriving without Models
Jan O. Angell, Fernando M. Ilharco
Keywords: Business and Management, Organization, Economic History, Operation Research/Decision Theory, International Economics, e-Business/e-Commerce, IT in Business
- Author(s)
- Avgerou, Chrisanthi
- Lanzara, Giovan Francesco
- Willcocks, Leslie P.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Technology, Work and Globalization
- Page amount
- 445 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230250611
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-30620-6