TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stahl,Bernd Carsten
TI  - Information systems: critical perspectives 
SN  - 9780415620369 (pbk.)
U1  - 303.483301 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Information society
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Knowledge management
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Information resources management
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Action research
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-234) and index; Critical research in information systems -- Theoretical discourses: a comparison of the Foucauldian and Habermasian concepts of discourse in CRIS -- Ethics, morality and critical research in IS --Emancipation across cultural boundaries: a fundamental problem of critical research in information systems -- Ontology: on positivism, realism, and their relevance for critical IS research -- Epistemology: on information, knowledge and truth -- Methodology; is there a specific critical way to knowledge? -- Philosophical syncretism in IS research: final remarks on ontology, epistemology and paradigms -- Information systems as means of (dis)empowerment: the information society and decision support systems in local authorities in Egypt -- Responsible and heroic management of workplace privacy: a critical view of ICT management -- Trust as fetish: a critical theory perspective on research on trust in e-commerce -- The ideological use of privacy and security -- The metaphor of evolution in e-commerce: a critical evaluation -- Commercial colonisation: e-teaching and e-democracy -- Limitations of the critical approach -- The future of critical research in information systems
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip083/2007044223.html
ER  -