Phenomenology, organizational politics, and IT design the social study of information systems /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Viscusi, Gianluigi, 1972-, Campagnolo, Gian Marco, 1977-, Curzi, Ylenia, 1976-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems > Design.; Information technology > Social aspects.; Social media.; Communication and technology.; Organizational sociology.; Domain engineering; Interactionist perspective; Memory and information growth; Micro-orders; Organizational design; Personnel satisfaction; Phenomenological perspective; Situated action; Social worlds; Systems design
• Online Access: Chapter PDFs via platform:

"Information systems are researched, published on, and utilized as an extremely broad and vital sector of current technology development, usually studied from the scientific or technological viewpoints therein. Phenomenology, Organizational Politics, and IT Design: The Social Study of Informati...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Why is information system design interested in ethnography?: sketches of an ongoing story / Giolo Fele
• 2. Experiencing information systems research and phenomenology: the case of Claudio Ciborra and Martin Heidegger / Paolo Depaoli
• 3. Heidegger's notion of Befindlichkeit and the meaning of "situated" in social inquiries / Kenneth Liberman
• 4. Communities of practice from a phenomenological stance: lessons learned for IS design / Giorgio De Michelis
• 5. Knowing and living as data assembly / Jannis Kallinikos
• 6. "Whatever works": making sense of information quality on information system artifacts / Federico Cabitza, Carla Simone
• 7. About representational artifacts and their role in engineering / Hilda Tellioglu
• 8. Representations, institutions, and IS design: towards a meth-odos / Gianluigi Viscusi
• 9. Studying information infrastructures / Petter Nielsen
• 10. Prioritizing packaged software implementation projects: the significance of gaps / Nicholas J. Rowland
• 11. The role of management consultants in long-term ERP customization trajectories: a case from the Italian local government / Gian Marco Campagnolo
• 12. Accumulation and erosion of user representations or how is situated design interaction situated / Sampsa Hyysalo
• 13. Strategic ethnography and the biography of artefacts / Robin Williams, Neil Pollock
• 14. The horizons of experience: the limits of rational thought upon irrational phenomena / Tony Hines
• 15. Social practice design / Gian Marco Campagnolo, Gianni Jacucci
• 16. IS-related organizational change and the necessity of techno-organizational co-design(-in-use): an experience with ethnomethodologically oriented ethnography / Chiara Bassetti
• 17. A drifting service development: applying sociotechnical design in an ambient assisted living project / Kai-Uwe Loser ... [et al.]
• 18. Organizational learning and action research: the organization of individuals / Roberto Albano, Tommaso M. Fabbri, Ylenia Curzi.