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Introduction: Taking complexity seriously in IS research

Edoardo Jacucci (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
Ole Hanseth (Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
Kalle Lyytinen (Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

Information Technology & People

ISSN: 0959-3845

Article publication date: 1 January 2006

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Abstract

Purpose

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To give an overview of the papers contained in this Special Issue.

Design/methodology/approach

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Looks at how each of the papers reflects the theme of the Special Issue, “Complexity and IT design and evolution”.

Findings

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The collection of papers in this Special Issue addresses complexity, drawing on multi‐faceted, multi‐theoretical lines of inquiry.

Originality/value

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Frameworks from complexity science, institutional theory, social science, philosophy, and recent thinking in science and technology studies (STS) are used as theoretical lenses to conceptualize and analyze complexity in IS and to offer ways to mitigate it.

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Citation

Jacucci, E., Hanseth, O. and Lyytinen, K. (2006), "Introduction: Taking complexity seriously in IS research", Information Technology & People, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 5-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/09593840610649943

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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