INF9200 Autumn 2013
Date
August 19
(Monday)
Topic
What is IS theory?
August 21
(Wednesday)
Theorizing technology
Readings
 John Van Maanen Style as theory.
Organization Science, 6, 1, 1995, 132-144.
(Full text)
 John Van Maanen, Confessional Tales,
in Tales of the field: On writing
ethnography, University Of Chicago Press,
1988. (Full text)
 John Van Maanen, Some Notes on the
Importance of Writing in Organization
Studies, in J.I. Cash and P. Lawrence
(eds.), The Information Systems Research
Challenge: Qualitative Research Methods,
Boston: Harvard Business School Press,
1989, 27-33. (Full text)
 Wanda Orlikowski and Suzanne Iacono:
Research Commentary: Desperately
seeking the "IT"in IT Research - A Call to
Theorizing the IT Artifact. (Full text)
 Eric Monteiro and Ole Hanseth: Social
shaping of information infrastructure: on
being specific about the technology. In
Orlikowski, Wanda J., Geoff Walsham,
Matthew R. Jones and Janice I DeGross.
Information Technology and Changes in
Organizational Work. Chapman & Hall,
1995, p.325 - 343. (Full text)
 Langdon Winner: Autonomous
Technology, MIT Press, 1977. Introduction
only (Full text)
 Orlikowsky and Robey “Information
Technology and the Structuring of
Organizations” Information Systems
Research 2:2, 1991 (Paper)
 Barley, S.R. “Technology as an Occasion
for Structuring: Evidence from
Observations of CT Scanners and the
Social Order of Radiology Departments“
Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 31,
No. 1 (Mar., 1986), pp. 78-108 (Paper on
jstore)
 Robey and Bodreau “Accounting for the
Contradictory Organizational
Consequences of Information Technology:
Theoretical Directions and Methodological
Implications” Information Systems
Research Vol 10, No. 2, June 1999 (Full
August 23
(Friday)
August 26
(Monday)
August 28
(Wednesday)
text)
 Lucy Suchman: Human and Machine
Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated
Actions. Cambridge University Press. 2007
INTRODUCTION (Paper)
 Steps towards and ecology of Infrastructure
– Complex problems in design and access
for large-scale collaborative systems.
Susan Leigh Star, Karen Ruhleder (Full
text)
 Robert Pirsig, Zen and the art of
motorcycle maintenance
 Hanseth, Ole (2010). From Systems and
Tools to Networks and Infrastructures from Design to Cultivation: Towards a
design Theory of Information
Infrastructures., In Jonny,
Holmstrøm (ed.), Industrial Informatics
design, Use and Innovation.. IGI Global.
ISBN 978-1-61520-692-6. 11. s 122 156
Participants: Geoff Walsham, Mark Thompson,
Niall Hayes, Chris Westrup
Theory seminar:
Building theory from
empirial material
Theory seminar:
Participants: Geoff Walsham, Mark Thompson,
Building theory from
Niall Hayes, Chris Westrup
empirial material
Theorizing institutions
 Thornton and Ocasio “Institutional Logics”
in SAGE Handbook of Organizational
Institutionalism, Greenwood, Oliver,
Sahlin, Suddaby (eds), 2008, Sage
publications (Full text)
 Douglass North “Institutions, institutional
change and economic performance”
Chapters 1 & 3 (Paper)
 Sahay, Sæbø, Mekonnen, Gizaw “Interplay
of institutional logics and implications for
deinstitutionalization: Case study of HMIS
implementation in Tajikistan”, Information
Technologies and International
Development (Full text)
 Brian and Sundeep, Deinstitutionalization
 Feldman and March “Information in
organiztions as signal and symbol”,
Administrative Science Quarterly 26 (2)
1981 (Full text)
 Piotti, Chilundo, Sahay An Institutional
Perspective on Health Sector Reform and
the process of reframing health information
systems: Case Studies from Mozambique
(Full text)
August 30
(Friday)
Theorizing
participative design
 Participation in the HISP network –
looking back and looking forward.
 Kristen Nygaard (1996): "Those Were the
Days"? Or "Heroic Times Are Here
Again"? Scandinavian Journal of
Information Systems Vol 8 Issue 2, pp 91108 (Full text)
 Lucy Suchman 2002 Design from nowhere
 Pury participative networks, information
and organization
September 2
(Monday)
Theorizing knowledge
 Bowker & Star: Sorting things out (Web
access) chapters 1-3
 Lam “Tacit Knowledge, Organizational
Learning and Societal Institutions: An
Integrated Framework” Organization
Studies 2000, 21/3 (Full text)
 Timmermans, S. and Berg, M. 1997.
Standardization in Action: Achieving Local
Universality through Medical Protocols.
Social Studies of Science 27, p. 273-305.
(Full text)
 Puri, “Integrating Scientific with
Indigenous Knowledge: Constructing
Knowledge Alliances for Land
Management in India”, MISQ special issue
2007 (Full text)
 Orlikowski, Scott, Social materiality
September 4
(Wednesday)
Theorizing
development
 Journal for IT, Institutional entrepreneurs,
global/local
 Sen “Development as Freedom”
Introduction and Chapter 1 (Full text)
chapter 2
 Escobar “Encountering Development: The
Making and Unmaking of the Third
World” Chapters 1 & 2
 Walsham and Sahay: Research on
information systems in developing
countries: current landscape and future
prospects (Full text)
 Castells “Globalization and Identity in the
Network Society” Prometheus 04 (Paper)
August 30
(Friday)
Theorizing scaling
and sustainability
 Bruno Latour “Chapter 2: Circulating
references”, in Pandora’s Hope, Harvard
University Press 1999, pp. 24-79 (Full text
- large)
 Scaling of architectures, chapter book
 Networks of networks
September 6
(Monday)
Theorizing power
 Charles Doran: When building North
America, Deepen before Widening, in A
New North America: Cooperation and
Enhanced Interdependence, ed Doran and
Drischler, Westport 1996 (full text)
 Sahay, Monteiro and Aanestad
“Configurable politics: trying to integrate
health information systems in developing
countries”, Journal of the Association for
Information Systems Vol. 10 Special Issue
pp. 399-414, May 2009 (Full text)
 Power and Trust: Critical factors in the
adoption and use of electronic data
interchange, Paul Hart, Carol Saunders
(paper on jstore)
 Leiser Silva: Epistemological and
theoretical challenges for studying power
and politics in information systems. Inf.
Syst. J. 17(2): 165-183 (2007) (full text)
 Corruption, Puri, Sundeep, ICIS France