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Formated technology and informated action: The nature of information technology
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The aim of the current paper is to consider some of the universal features of information technology in terms of a conceptual framework established in previous work, grounded in a significant historical case: that of Hollerith's electric tabulating system.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Information Management.The article was published on 2009-08-01. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Management information systems & Information technology architecture.read more
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Business Information Systems
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive introduction to informatics and its application in organizations is provided, focusing on the needs of business and management students, using a strong theoretical base supported by practical examples.
Dissertation
Enterprise Architecture Adoption Method for Higher Education Institutions
TL;DR: In this paper, an improved EA adoption method (EAAM) is introduced to overcome the limitations of the traditional EA adoption methods, which helps in acquiring the mandate for EA adoption from top management, which has been found to be crucial to success.
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Making Faces: Information Does Not Exist
TL;DR: The ‘strange’ case of human emotive facial expression is used as a means to help unpack and relate three inter–related concepts, each with a different intellectual pedigree: intentionality from philosophy, intensionality from linguistics and in-formation from the information disciplines.
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Taxonomy of purpose of enterprise architecture
TL;DR: By using semiotic framework, it is shown that there is a clear gap between the definition of EA and its purpose, and that EA practitioners seem to realise that technical solutions are not the purpose of EA, but means for fulfilling it.
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Design science in information systems research
TL;DR: The objective is to describe the performance of design-science research in Information Systems via a concise conceptual framework and clear guidelines for understanding, executing, and evaluating the research.
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The nature of theory in information systems
TL;DR: The essay addresses issues of causality, explanation, prediction, and generalization that underlie an understanding of theory, and suggests that the type of theory under development can influence the choice of an epistemological approach.
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In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power
TL;DR: A noted Harvard social scientist documents the pitfalls and promises of computerized technology in business life as discussed by the authors, concluding that "computerized technology can be used for both good and bad things".
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the evolution of control as the engine of the information society and present a vision of the control as an essential life process in the modern world, and present an approach towards an information society from control crisis to control revolution.