Management Information Systems (MIS) play a crucial role in an organization's operations, accounting, decision-making, project management, and competitive advantage. The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems takes a critical and interdisciplinary view of the increasing complexity of these systems within organizations, and the strategic, managerial, and ethical issues associated with the effective use of these technologies. The book is organized into four parts: - Part I: Background - Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives in MIS - Part III: Rethinking Theory in MIS Practice - Part IV: Rethinking MIS Practice in a Broader Context The Handbook provides expansive coverage of the discipline and a methodological and philosophical framework for discussion of key topics, before exploring the issues associated with MIS in practice and considering the broader context and future agenda of research in light of such concerns as sustainability, ethics, and globalization. Bringing together international scholars to focus on the theory and practice of MIS, this handbook provides a comprehensive resource for academics and research students in the fields of MIS, IS, Organizational Behaviour, and Management in general.
PART I: BACKGROUND; 1. Foreword: Historical Reflections on the Practice of Information Management and Implications for the Field of MIS; 2. Setting the Scene: Tracing the History of the Information Systems Field; PART II: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES IN MIS; Introduction; 3. The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth: High Quality Research in Information Systems; 4. Systems Thinking and Soft Systems Methodology; 5. Structuration Theory; 6. Institutional Theory of Information Technology; 7. 'Everything is Dangerous': Rethinking Michel Foucault and the Social Study of ICTs; 8. Critical Social Information Systems Research; 9. Hermeneutics and Meaning-making in Information Systems; 10. Phenomenology, Screens and Screenness: Returning to the World Itself; 11. Post-structuralism, Social Shaping of Technology and Actor Network Theory: What Can They Bring to IS research?; PART III: RETHINKING THEORY IN MIS PRACTICE; Introduction; 12. Further Developments in Information Systems Strategising: Unpacking the Concept; 13. Rethinking Business-IT Alignment; 14. IT-dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review, Synthesis and an Extension of the Literature; 15. Changing the Story Surrounding Enterprise Systems to Improve our Understanding of What Makes ERP Work in Organizations; 16. A Multi-theoretic Approach to IT Governance: The Need for Engagement as well as Alignment; 17. Rethinking Information Systems Security; 18. Mobile IT; 19. A Review of the IT Outsourcing Literature: Insights for Practice; PART IV: RETHINKING MIS PRACTICE IN A BROADER CONTEXT; Introduction; 20. Managing Knowledge Work; 21. Rethinking Gender and MIS for the Twenty-first Century; 22. Green Digits: Towards an Ecology of IT Thinking; 23. Ethics and ICT; 24. IT, Globalization and Human Development: A Personal View; 25. Discourses on Innovation and Development in Information Systems in Developing Countries Research; 26. From Instrumentality to Emergence in Information Systems
