Ethical information systems development: A baumanian postmodernist perspective

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 787-815

  Chatterjee, Sutirtha ^a   Sarker, Suprateek ^b   Fuller, Mark ^c  

^a PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Case interpretation; Ethics; Fairness; Information Systems Development (ISD); Moral agent; Moral impulse; Moral responsibility; Postmodern ethics; Systems analyst

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ETHICS; FAIRNESS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT; MORAL AGENTS; MORAL IMPULSE; MORAL RESPONSIBILITY; POSTMODERN ETHICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSTS;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 70749103039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00214     Document Type: Article

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