MARC details
| 020 ## - ISBN (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER) |
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| ISBN |
0471958204 (cloth) |
| 082 00 - DDC NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
003 |
| Edition number |
21 |
| Book number |
C 51 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Author |
Checkland, Peter. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Information, systems, and information systems : |
| Remainder of title |
making sense of the field / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Peter Checkland and Sue Holwell. |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of publication, distribution |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor |
John Wiley & Sons,Inc |
| Date of publication, distribution |
1998 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Pages |
xv, 262 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Size |
24 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Contents note |
Information, Systems and Information Systems making sense of the field Peter Checkland and Sue Holwell Lancaster University, UK Science-based technology helps to shape our lives, and no technology is more powerful in this respect than that associated with information. But the emerging linked fields of information systems and information technology are still in a very confused state. There is a torrent of technical developments but the concepts which bring structure to the field and make sense of it lag behind. This book seeks to dispel that confusion, and aims to make sense of IS and IT as a whole. Conventional theory bears little relation to the experience most people have with computer-based systems in organizations. Based on real-world experiences in both the private and public sectors, this book from Peter Checkland and Sue Holwell tackles the subject afresh. Information, Systems and Information Systems provides a practice-based approach to the thinking needed to underpin provision of information support in organizations. Starting from fundamentals, the book develops a coherent account of the field. The book is thus a work of conceptual cleansing. It presents a well-argued and tested account of IS and IT which is both holistic and coherent. The sense-making models which emerge can encompass any particular assumptions about the nature of organizational reality and management, whether 'hard' functionalist or 'soft' interpretive ones, though the authors' sympathies are with the latter. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term |
Management information systems. |
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| Topical term |
Information technology. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Name |
Holwell, Sue. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Publisher description |
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| Materials specified |
Table of Contents |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Cassification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Non textbook |
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
970722s1998 enka b 001 0 eng |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Chichester ; |
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New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Wiley, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c1998. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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19 |
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