【About the journal】
Information Technology & People maintains an openness to multiple paradigms of research including what has been mainstream empirical work, but emphasizes an agenda to publish hermeneutic, critical, ethnographic and language-focused original research and theory in information systems. We seek cultural and geographic diversity in studies of new technologies and uses that have a special impact on organisational communications, change processes and work practices, and that reflect the varying societal and infrastructural conditions in which information technology is deployed. We look for ways to perceive how people collectively conceptualize, invent, adapt, define and use technology, as well as how they are constrained by features of it. The journal has a primarily organizational focus, but publishes research relating to boundaries between organisational and societal concerns. "Cultures of information" is a topic that intersects industries, global regions and organisations, and is a new theme within our current scope. The emerging uses of IT in organisationally bounded teams and self-organising groups, in support of software engineering processes, and for regional issues in electronic commerce are topics which fit the theoretical scope and are an important area of current research.
【雑誌概要】
情報技術がこれまでになく高度で複雑になり、普及化するにつれ、組織構造や運営方法との兼ね合いの重要性が、組織、組織を構成する人々、そして情報技術と組織の関連性が根付く社会にとって、一層深まっています。Information Technology & Peopleは、1982年以来この事象を探求している最先端の雑誌であり、ITと組織の相互関係だけでなく、その関係を発見し理解するための最新の方法や理論も特定していく、研究の最先端を担っています。そのため、本誌では、最新の社会理論、様々な方法、および情報技術が展開されている最先端の場所を活用しています。編集範囲には研究の設定やアプローチだけでなく、技術の概念化のために使用する論法および、使用方法の決定なども含まれます。また、組織と技術の相互作用の新たな形態の分析も行っています。
【Coverage】
Information Technology & People publishes work that is dedicated to understanding the implications of information technology as a tool, resource and format for people in their daily work in organizations. Impact on performance is part of this, since it is essential to the well being of employees and organizations alike. Contributions to the journal include case studies, comparative theory, and quantitative research, as well as inquiries into systems development methods and practice.