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Even though automated information systems have been used in work life for almost three decades, the academic discipline of information systems development is still in a ‘pre-paradigmatic phase’. There is no central corpus of a well understood and accepted theory of how these artifacts should be understood and designed. What we see is a set of scattered methods and theories, with influences from a wide variety of other disciplines, such as logic, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive psychology, organizational theory, ethnography, etc. There is a practical need for creating an overview and a deeper understanding of how different theories and methods are related to each other, what their relative strengths and weaknesses are and when they are applicable.
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Holm, P., Karlgren, K. (1995). Theories of meaning and different perspectives on information systems. In: Falkenberg, E.D., Hesse, W., Olivé, A. (eds) Information System Concepts. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34870-4_3
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