The sensible organization: A new agenda for is research

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hasan, Helen ^a   Linger, Henry ^b   Warne, Leoni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Defence Scientific and Technical Organisation   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaborative work practices; Network centric organizations; Sensible organizations; Social learning; Socio technical systems

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE WORK PRACTICE; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; DECENTRALIZED DECISION-MAKING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE WORK; NETWORK-CENTRIC; NETWORKED ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; SELF ORGANIZING; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870968044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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