The Information Systems Artifact: A Conceptualization Based on General Systems Theory (Best Paper Nomination)
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Volume
2017
First page number:
5717
Last page number:
5726
Abstract
Passionate debates regarding the defining characteristic of the “IT artifact” continue. Such debates, and also the lack of explicit consideration of the “information” element in the IT artifact, motivate us to propose a revised conception, drawing upon concepts from General Systems Theory (GST). Following a number of scholars [39], we name our reconceptualization as an IS artifact, which aims to provide a contemporary view of an IS that could accommodate the changing nature of both society and technology while at the same time maintain a clear definition of what we mean by an IS.
Language
english
Repository Citation
Chatterjee, S.,
Xiao, X.,
Elbanna, A.,
Sarker, S.
(2017).
The Information Systems Artifact: A Conceptualization Based on General Systems Theory (Best Paper Nomination).
Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2017
5717-5726.
