Table of Contents

Part I: Background
1: M Lynne Markus: Foreword: Historical Reflections on the Practice of Information Management and Implications for the Field of MIS
2: Rudy Hirschheim and Heinz K Klein: Setting the Scene: Tracing the History of the Information Systems Field
Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives in MIS
Wendy L Currie: Introduction
3: John Mingers: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth: High Quality Research in Information Systems
4: Peter Checkland: Systems Thinking and Soft Systems Methodology
5: Matthew Jones: Structuration Theory
6: Wendy L Currie: Institutional Theory of Information Technology
7: Leslie P Willcocks and Eleni A Lioliou: 'Everything is Dangerous': Rethinking Michel Foucault and the Social Study of ICTs
8: Bernd Stahl: Critical Social Information Systems Research
9: Lucas D Introna: Hermeneutics and Meaning-making in Information Systems
10: Lucas D Introna and Fernando M Ilharco: Phenomenology, Screens and Screenness: Returning to the World Itself
11: Nathalie Mitev and Debra Howcroft: Post-structuralism, Social Shaping of Technology and Actor Network Theory: What Can They Bring to IS research?
Part III: Rethinking Theory in MIS Practice
Robert D. Galliers: Introduction
12: Robert D. Galliers: Further Developments in Information Systems Strategising: Unpacking the Concept
13: Yolande E Chan and Blaize Horner Reich: Rethinking Business-IT Alignment
14: Michael Wade, Gabriele Piccoli and Blake Ives: IT-dependent Strategic Initiatives and Sustained Competitive Advantage: A Review, Synthesis and an Extension of the Literature
15: Erica Wagner and Sue Newell: Changing the Story Surrounding Enterprise Systems to Improve our Understanding of What Makes ERP Work in Organizations
16: Sue Newell and Cynthia Clark Williams: A Multi-theoretic Approach to IT Governance: The Need for Engagement as well as Alignment
17: Amy W Ray: Rethinking Information Systems Security
18: Carsten Sørensen: Mobile IT
19: Mary C Lacity, Shaji A Khan, and Leslie P Willcocks: A Review of the IT Outsourcing Literature: Insights for Practice
Part IV: Rethinking MIS Practice in a Broader Context
Robert D. Galliers: Introduction
20: Jacky Swan: Managing Knowledge Work
21: Eileen M Trauth: Rethinking Gender and MIS for the Twenty-first Century
22: Pierre Berthon, Philip DesAutels, Brian Donnellan, and Cynthia Clark Williams: Green Digits: Towards an Ecology of IT Thinking
23: Simon Rogerson: Ethics and ICT
24: Geoff Walsham: IT, Globalization and Human Development: A Personal View
25: Chrisanthi Avgerou: Discourses on Innovation and Development in Information Systems in Developing Countries Research
26: Richard T Watson, Pierre Berthon, and Leyland F Pitt: From Instrumentality to Emergence in Information Systems

About the Author

Robert D. Galliers was appointed Bentley University's inaugural University Distinguished Professor in July 2009, having served as Bentley's Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs since 2002. He was previously Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics; Professor of Business Management Systems and Dean of Warwick Business School; and Professor and Head of the School of Information Systems at Curtin University, Western Australia. He
is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, has published over 70 articles in many leading international journals, and authored or co-authored 11 books, including: Exploring
Information Systems Research (Routledge, 2007); the bestseller Strategic Information Management (Routledge, 2009); Rethinking Management Information Systems (OUP, 1999), and IT and Organizational Transformation (Wiley, 1998). Wendy L. Currie holds a PhD in Management and a BSc in Sociology. Currie is on the editorial board of ten academic journals and regularly publishes her research work. She currently serves as Hon Treasurer for the Fellowship of
Postgraduate Medicine charity and is a Trustee of the Cardiovascular Research Trust. She regularly consults on the interface between business, management and technology and has recently completed assignments with Microsoft, Mouchel, 7 Layer,
Deloitte, the Church of England and Barclays Capital.