Determining the factors that have an influence on software systems development and
deployment project outcomes has been the focus of extensive and ongoing research for …

User participation and involvement in software development are considered to be essential
for a successful software system. Three research areas, human aspects of software …

The participation of users in system development and its role in IS success have been core
topics of IS research since the 1960s, yet critical analysis and recent changes in IS practice …

There is increasing interest in hermeneutics as a research approach in the field of
information systems. However, the problem facing researchers is that there is a paucity of …

Bringing together case studies from Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and
Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time. It suggests …

The debate between 'hard'and 'soft'research approaches continues in the IS field, but with
little prospect of resolution. The debate is typically characterized by tendentious arguments …

Purpose–The purpose of this research is to investigate if, and in that case, how and what the
e‐government field can learn from user participation concepts and theories in general …

While much is known about the general process of user participation in information systems
development, its impact on matters of organisational change has not been the subject of …

Based on an extensive literature analysis, this paper examines user‐centredness in the
context of systems development as a multidimensional concept composed of four aspects …

Hermeneutics can be defined as 'the theory or philosophy of the interpretation of
meaning'(Bleicher, 1980, p. 1). Hermeneutics is primarily concerned with the meaning of a …