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“Information technology to support electronic meetings"
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Four paradigms of information systems development
Communications of the ACM
Electronic meeting system experience at IBM
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Decision support and knowledge-based systems
Information systems development and data modeling: conceptual and philosophical foundations
Information systems development and data modeling: conceptual and philosophical foundations
Information technology and organizational transformation
The reality of user-centered design
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Social Analyses of Computing: Theoretical Perspectives in Recent Empirical Research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Value conflicts and social choice in electronic funds transfer system developments
Communications of the ACM
A Paradigmatic Analysis Contrasting Information Systems Development Approaches and Methodologies
Information Systems Research
Computers and the myth of neutrality
CSC '84 Proceedings of the ACM 12th annual computer science conference on SIGCSE symposium
Information in business and administrative systems
Information in business and administrative systems
Structured Analysis and System Specification
Structured Analysis and System Specification
The socio-political construction of caresys: how interests and values influence computerization
Networked information technologies
Acting with genres: discursive-ethical concepts for reflecting on and legitimating genres
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A paradigmatic and methodological examination of knowledge management research: 2000 to 2004
Decision Support Systems
Witty invention or dubious fad? Using argument mapping to examine the contours of management fashion
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MC Sandbox: Devising a tool for method-user-centered method configuration
Information and Software Technology
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Whenever information systems are developed, they serve some interests at the expense of others. Just what those interests are and who possesses them need to be understood and debated as they involve value judgments. This paper contends that advice concerning the design of information systems must not be limited to technical design, but should also address what is good or bad, or right or wrong in any particular situation—a notion termed a design ideal. The paper offers an approach on how such value judgments involving competing design ideals may be approached in a rational way. This necessitates the adoption of a wider concept of rationality, one, which allows the insights of critical philosophical analysis to be brought to bear on the question of how information systems can best serve all project stakeholders. In order to address likely objections to our proposal, the conclusions discuss several research issues.