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In search of an integrative vision for technology : interdisciplinary studies in information systems / [edited by] Sytse Strijbos, Andrew Basden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary systems thinkingPublisher: New York : Springer, 2006Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0387321500
  • 9780387321509
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 22
LOC classification:
  • T14 .I456 2006
Contents:
1. Introduction : in search of an integrative vision for technology / S. Strijbos and A. Basden -- 2. Aspects of knowledge representation / A. Basden -- 3. Reflecting on the use of the concept of qualifying function in system design / B. Bergvall-Kareborn -- 4. Elicitation of highly interdisciplinary knowledge / M. Winfield and A. Basden -- 5. An appreciative critique and refinement of checkland's soft systems methodology / A. Mirijamdotter and B. Bergvall-Kareborn -- 6. The systems character of modern technology / S. Strijbos -- 7. Communication without bounds? / J. van der Stoep -- 8. Norms of communication and the rise of the network society / J. van der Stoep -- 9. Evaluation of systems in human practice / A. E. Vlug and J. van der Lei -- 10. Multimodal investigation of technology-aided human practice in business operations / D. M. Eriksson -- 11. An aspectual understanding of the human use of information technology / A. Basden -- 12. The idea of a systems ethics / S. Strijbos -- 13. Normative sources of systems thinking : an inquiry into religious ground-motives of systems thinking paradigms / D. M. Eriksson -- 14. Towards a 'disclosive systems thinking' / S. Strijbos -- 15. Reflections on the CPTS model of interdisciplinarity / G. Midgley -- 16. Technology and systems - but what about the humanities? / C. Mitcham.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-294) and index.

1. Introduction : in search of an integrative vision for technology / S. Strijbos and A. Basden -- 2. Aspects of knowledge representation / A. Basden -- 3. Reflecting on the use of the concept of qualifying function in system design / B. Bergvall-Kareborn -- 4. Elicitation of highly interdisciplinary knowledge / M. Winfield and A. Basden -- 5. An appreciative critique and refinement of checkland's soft systems methodology / A. Mirijamdotter and B. Bergvall-Kareborn -- 6. The systems character of modern technology / S. Strijbos -- 7. Communication without bounds? / J. van der Stoep -- 8. Norms of communication and the rise of the network society / J. van der Stoep -- 9. Evaluation of systems in human practice / A. E. Vlug and J. van der Lei -- 10. Multimodal investigation of technology-aided human practice in business operations / D. M. Eriksson -- 11. An aspectual understanding of the human use of information technology / A. Basden -- 12. The idea of a systems ethics / S. Strijbos -- 13. Normative sources of systems thinking : an inquiry into religious ground-motives of systems thinking paradigms / D. M. Eriksson -- 14. Towards a 'disclosive systems thinking' / S. Strijbos -- 15. Reflections on the CPTS model of interdisciplinarity / G. Midgley -- 16. Technology and systems - but what about the humanities? / C. Mitcham.

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