Paper Info
Title
The Nature and Role of Generative Systemic Metaphor within Information Systems Planning and Development
Abstract
Generative metaphors have a capacity to underpin the discourses and methodologies associated with the planning and development of information systems. A number of systemic metaphors are described here. These range from traditional viable systems models to those that can accommodate a multiplicity of interests and relationships, encompassing mutuality and collectivity as well as domination and conflict. The role of such metaphors in framing information systems development and its relationship to human behaviors within organizations, in this case of healthcare, are explored using a case study. The paper speculates on how systemic metaphor may underpin integrated development in which the objective is to bring about technological and human change simultaneously.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/978-0-387-35634-1_16
Global and Organizational Discourse about Information Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
generative systemic metaphor,information systems planning
Information system,Framing (construction),Cognitive science,Psychology,Knowledge management,Human behavior,Generative grammar,Metaphor
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
110
1571-5736
1-4020-7325-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.36
3
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christopher J. Atkinson1275.63