Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology

1 Placing Language in the Foreground: Themes and Methods in Information Technology Discourse.- 1: Keynotes.- 2 Talking the IS Innovation Walk.- 3 Figuring Service in Discourses of ICT: The Case of Software Agents.- 2: Analytical Frameworks.- 4 Transitioning Toward an Internet Culture: An Interorganizational Analysis of Identity Construction from Online Services to Intranets.- 5 Discourse on E-Mail in Use.- 6 When Does a Computer Speak the Truth? The Problem of IT and Validity Claims.- 7 Conceptualizing Information Technology in the Study of Information Systems: Trends and Issues.- 8 A Research Note on Capturing Technology: Toward Moments of Interest.- 9 The Phenomenology of Information Systems Evaluation: Overcoming the Subject/Object Dualism.- 3: Critical Research.- 10 Organizational Discourse as a Social Defense: Taming the Tiger of Electronic Government.- 11 The Discourse of Learning Technology in Canada: Understanding Communication Distortions and Their Implications for Decision Making.- 4: Mobilization of Power.- 12 Rhetoric of Enrollment and Acts of Resistance: Information Technology as Text.- 13 The Discourse of a Large Scale Organizational Transformation: The Reengineering of IBM, 1989–1994.- 14 The Digital Divide at Work and Home: The Discourse about Power and Underrepresented Groups in the Information Society.- 5: IS Planning and Projects.- 15 Arguing for Information Systems Project Definition.- 16 The Nature and Role of Generative Systemic Metaphor Within Information Systems Planning and Development.- 6: Globalization, Development, and Space.- 17 ICT, Power, and Developmental Discourse: A Critical Analysis.- 18 The Importance of Being Nearest: Nearshore Software Outsourcing and Globalization Discourse.- 7: Enterprise Resource Planning.- 19 Discourse,Management Fashions, and ERP Systems.- 20 Interconnecting Information Systems Narrative Research: An End-to-End Approach for Process-Oriented Field Studies.- 21 Dominant Technological Discourses in Action: Paradigmatic Shifts in Sense Making in the Implementation of an ERP System.- 8: Public Institutions.- 22 Knowledge Work in Hospitals.- 23 In a Mood to Make Sense of Technology: A Longitudinal Study of Discursive Practices at the London Ambulance Service.- 24 ERP Adoption: Selling the System.- 9: Panels.- 25 Visual Elements in the Discourse on Information Technology.- 26 Discourse and Organizational Transformation in Information Systems Research.- 27 New Words and Old Books: Challenging Conventional Discourses About Domain and Theory in Information Systems Research.- Index of Contributors.