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Professional desire, competence and engagement in IS context

In English

Författare

  • Peter Bednar
  • Christine Welch

Redaktör

  • Gabriele Piccoli
  • Alessandro D'Atri
  • Richard T. Watson

Summary, in English

This paper attempts to address the failings of a predominant paradigm in IS research and practice that emphasises technological determinism. This paradigm makes use of a false belief in the power of rationality in organizational decision-making, and a mythology in which organizational actors can be viewed as passive ‘users’ of technology. We wish to create a discussion of the nature and role of professionalism as an expression of more than technical competence. Both system analysts and organizational stakeholders (e.g. ‘users’) are to be viewed as professionals. We discuss desire, exercise of will and their role in professional judgment in relation to transcendent values espoused within communities of practice. We go on to relate this to the environments of Information Systems research and practice. It is pointed out that many researchers, over a number of years, have dealt with these issues in relation to effective management of technological development and organizational change. The paper attempts to encourage renewed attention to interpretivist perspectives on IS development and organizational change, including recognition of the importance of contextual dependencies.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1-8

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Achieving Fusion in the Interconnected World: Exploring the connection between organizations and technology

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Förlag

University of Sasssari

Ämne

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Nyckelord

  • Systems Analysis
  • Systems Development
  • Contextual Analysis
  • Organizational Decisionmaking
  • Professional Judgement
  • Organizational Change
  • Contextual Dependencies
  • Professional Desire

Conference name

ItAIS2009: Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Italian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems

Conference date

2009-10-02 - 2009-10-03

Conference place

Costa Smeralda, Italy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-88-6105-060-0