Information systems : critical perspectives / Bernd Carsten Stahl.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in organization and systemsAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2008Description: xiii, 245 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415433785 (hb)
- 0415433789 (hb)
- 9780203927939 (eb)
- 0203927931 (eb)
- 303.483301 22
- HM851 .S7285 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. Theory -- 1. Critical research in information systems -- 2. Theoretical discourses: a comparison of the Foucauldian and Habermasian concepts of discourse in CRIS -- 3. Ethics, morality and critical research in IS -- 4. Emancipation across cultural boundaries: a fundamental problem of critical research in information systems -- Pt. II. Philosophy -- 5. Ontology: on positivism, realism, and their relevance for critical IS research -- 6. Epistemology: on information, knowledge and truth -- 7. Methodology; is there a specific critical way to knowledge? -- 8. Philosophical syncretism in IS research: final remarks on ontology, epistemology and paradigms -- Pt. III. Application -- 9. Information systems as means of (dis)empowerment: the information society and decision support systems in local authorities in Egypt -- 10. Responsible and heroic management of workplace privacy: a critical view of ICT management -- 11. Trust as fetish: a critical theory perspective on research on trust in e-commerce -- 12. The ideological use of privacy and security -- 13. The metaphor of evolution in e-commerce: a critical evaluation -- 14. Commercial colonisation: e-teaching and e-democracy -- Pt. IV. Reflection(s) -- 15. Limitations of the critical approach -- 16. The future of critical research in information systems -- App. A. Discourse analysis of the Egyptian information society -- App. B. List of validity claims used for coding the text during critical discourse analysis of e-commerce trust research.
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