- Title
- The rationality framework for a critical study of information systems
- Creator
- Cecez-Kecmanovic, Dubravka; Janson, Marius; Brown Ann
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/161303
- Identifier
- vital:12425
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29266-3
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-3-319-29266-3
- Abstract
- This paper focuses on the relationship between information systems (IS) and organizational processes from the perspective of the rationality of actors and their actions. The terms rational and rationality that are used in theoretical writings and in everyday life denote a multiplicity of meanings. The idea of reason has been connected with the disposition of actors to give rational grounds for or logical explanations of their beliefs and actions. Similarly, the actions by which actors achieve desired ends are regarded as rational. Furthermore, organizational processes that embody and are governed by rational actions are considered rational. More generally, an increase in the rationality that characterizes modern organizations and society is called rationalization. This paper explores the relationship between IS and organizations within the light of the progressive rationalization of organizational processes.
- Relation
- Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems: Volume 1 Chapter 5 p. 102-126
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Quantitative critical research; Grounded theory; Methodological pluralism; Positivist
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