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This paper will focus on the topic of organisational change and its management from an information systems perspective. The paper will examine the issues raised during a review of the change management literature - looking at the major approaches to change management, namely, the planned, emergent and contingency approaches - as background to the issues raised in other papers in this theme of the book. As in the Management ln The 90s (MIT90s) study, a very broad definition of the term IT is used to include: computers of all types, hardware, software, communications networks, and the integration of computing and communications technologies. The paper will then examine change management within the context of information systems (IS) theory and practice. This will lead to a discussion of an emerging model by Orlikowski and Hofman which will be briefly reviewed to provide insight into the types of models which are likely to provide a focus for research in the area in the near future. The model also provides a strong and interesting framework against which to view some of the papers that follow in this theme of the book.
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Macredie, R.D., Sandom, C., Paul, R.J. (1998). Modelling for Change: An Information Systems Perspective on Change Management Models. In: Macredie, R., Paul, R., Anketell, D., Lehaney, B., Warwick, S. (eds) Modelling for Added Value. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0601-2_1
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