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, 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2017 |
| Editors | Tung X. Bui, Ralph Sprague |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Place of Publication | Honolulu |
| Publisher | Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Pages | 5717-5726 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780998133102 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| Event | 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017 - Waikoloa Village, United States Duration: 4 Jan 2017 → 7 Jan 2017 Conference number: 50 http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ |
Conference
| Conference | 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017 |
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| Number | 50 |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Waikoloa Village |
| Period | 04/01/2017 → 07/01/2017 |
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| Series | Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
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| ISSN | 1060-3425 |
Keywords
- General systems theory
- Information
- IS artifact
- IT artifact
- Meta-principle