1st Edition
How Information Systems Came to Rule the World And Other Essays
By Burt Swanson
Copyright 2022
152 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
152 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
152 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers a fresh perspective on information systems, a field of study and practice currently undergoing substantial upheaval, even as it expands rapidly and widely with new technologies and applications.
Mapping the field as it has developed, the author firmly establishes the under-recognized importance of the field, and grounds it firmly in the subject’s history. He argues against the... Read more
1. Quo vadis, information systems?; 2. Why do firms have information systems?; 3. What information is provided by information systems?; 4. Why is everyone now an information system user?; 5. How did information systems come to rule the world?; 6. How do human practices change with information systems?; 7. How can information systems make a better world?
Biography
E. Burton Swanson is Research Professor of Information Systems at UCLA’s Anderson School, USA.
