In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology

1. Introduction: In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology
Sytse Strijbos, Andrew Basden

Part I:.Artifacts and their Development

2. Aspects of Knowledge Representation
Andrew Basden

3. Reflecting on the Use of the Concept of Qualifying Function in System Design
Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn

4. Elicitation of Highly Interdisciplinary Knowledge
Mike Winfield, Andrew Basden

5. An Appreciative Critique and Refinement of Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology
Anita Mirijamdotter, Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn

Part II:.Socio-Technical Systems

6. The Systems Character of Modern Technology
Sytse Strijbos

7. Communication Without Bounds?
Jan Stoep

8. Norms of Communication and the Rise of the Network Society
Jan Stoep

Part III:.Human Practices

9. Evaluation of Systems in Human Practice
Albert E. Vlug, Johan Lei

10. Multimodal Investigation of Technology-Aided Human Practice in Business Operations
Darek M. Eriksson

11. An Aspectual Understanding of the Human Use of Information Technology
Andrew Basden

Part IV:.Directional Perspectives

12. The Idea of a Systems Ethics
Sytse Strijbos

13. Normative Sources of Systems Thinking: An Inquiry into Religious Ground-Motives of Systems Thinking Paradigms
Darek M. Eriksson

14. Towards a ‘Disclosive Systems Thinking’
Sytse Strijbos

Part V:.Critical Reflections

15. Reflections on the CPTS Model of Interdisciplinarity
Gerald Midgley

16. Technology and Systems — but What about the Humanities?
Carl Mitcham

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Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science BUS042000