A Dialogue with C. West Churchman
Information Systems Frontiers
Electronic commerce (EC) tools in context: what are the implications for global electronic commerce?
Internet management issues
The ontological screening of contemporary life: a phenomenological analysis of screens
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: "Interpretive" approaches to information systems and computing
Information and Management
Parasitism and Internet auction fraud: An exploration
Information and Organization
Wikipedia, Critical Social Theory, and the Possibility of Rational Discourse
The Information Society
Soft design science methodology
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology
Examining user involvement in continuous software development: (a case of error reporting system)
Communications of the ACM - The Status of the P versus NP Problem
Information and Management
Forty years of the corporate information technology function at Texaco Inc. - A history
Information and Organization
Explaining history of egovernment implementation in developing countries: an analytical framework
EGOV'11 Proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic government
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications
International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
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Colonial systems are presented as an alternative to the mechanistic and organic systems paradigms. They are based upon the inclusion of an evolutionary social history (Ernst Mayr), species-level evolution (Eldredge and Gould), and local context (Martin Heidegger) as central premises in the definition of human systems. The colonial viewpoint of systems is differentiated from the mechanistic and organic models by ten different axioms that define how systems operate during both homeostasis (stability) and radical change. From the axiomatic descriptions of colonial systems, the method of punctuated prototyping is derived to clarify how local colonies survive and prosper by creating and adopting isolated prototypes. This change mechanism (1) requires the self-awareness to recognize the necessity for change, and (2) describes the empowerment necessary for the colonists to build and adopt successful prototypes. The colonial systems model can be applied to explanations about how information systems, organizations, and social institutions change. Further, colonies can be used as a metaphor to design new human systems that capture a greater degree of humanness than do the models of machines and organisms.