Scandinavia has had unproportional signifi-cance in the evolution of information systems
(IS) as an academic discipline. One characteristic of the Scandinavian IS development (ISD) …

The key challenge for the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) community is
how best to understand work for the purposes of design, and how best to design systems for …

This paper will approach the nature of system development based on dialectical thinking. To
conduct this approach, the paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, the concept" …

The paper presents another iteration in the ongoing CSCW dialogue between the
understanding of work and the design of systems to support work. We overview the Locales …

In this column, we review the recently published Context and Consciousness, edited by
Bonnie Nardi (1996). In the process, we become engaged in a more general exploration of …

Entgegen anderslautender Erwartungen lassen sich dennoch viele menschliche Tätigkeiten
in absehbarer Zeit nicht bzw. nur beschränkt durch Software automatisieren. Der …

Information system development (ISD) methodologies are generally lacking in serious
attention to human activity. They focus more on implementation of a software product than …

The growing acceptance of the need to incorporate an understanding of the work into the
design and development process has resulted in a concern with the integration of studies of …

Zusammenhänge ist die Erweiterung um angemessene Beschreibungsmittel erforderlich.
Der Modellierer soll ein Werkzeug an die Hand bekommen, mit dem er nicht nur das …

This study addresses the issue of knowledge management. The results are based on field
study of a quality support group in a pharmaceutical company. Particularly, the knowledge …