Just enough structure at the edge of chaos: Agile information system development in practice

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 9 LNBIP, Issue , 2008, Pages 137-146

  Kautz, Karlheinz ^a,b   Zumpe, Sabine ^c  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive systems theory; Edge of chaos

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGILE INFORMATION SYSTEM; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS THEORIES; EDGE OF CHAOS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; STABILITY AND INSTABILITY;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79952454997     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68255-4_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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