In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems /

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Strijbos, Sytse (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Basden, Andrew (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
Σειρά:Contemporary Systems Thinking,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction: In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology
  • Introduction: In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology
  • Artifacts and their Development
  • Aspects of Knowledge Representation
  • Reflecting on the Use of the Concept of Qualifying Function in System Design
  • Elicitation of Highly Interdisciplinary Knowledge
  • An Appreciative Critique and Refinement of Checkland’s Soft Systems Methodology
  • Socio-Technical Systems
  • The Systems Character of Modern Technology
  • Communication Without Bounds?
  • Norms of Communication and the Rise of the Network Society
  • Human Practices
  • Evaluation of Systems in Human Practice
  • Multimodal Investigation of Technology-Aided Human Practice in Business Operations
  • An Aspectual Understanding of the Human Use of Information Technology
  • Directional Perspectives
  • The Idea of a Systems Ethics
  • Normative Sources of Systems Thinking: An Inquiry into Religious Ground-Motives of Systems Thinking Paradigms
  • Towards a ‘Disclosive Systems Thinking’
  • Critical Reflections
  • Reflections on the CPTS Model of Interdisciplinarity
  • Technology and Systems — but What about the Humanities?.