This is a list of references
on critical research. After a brief introduction which suggests
those works which are essential reading for newcomers to the
field, the list is organized into two parts: the first part
lists citations related to
the approach in Information Systems, the
second lists citations related to the approach in
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Cecez-Kecmanovic, D. "Basic assumptions of the critical research
perspectives in information systems," in: Handbook of Critical Information
Systems Research: Theory and Application, D. Howcroft and E. Trauth
(eds.), Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 2005, pp. 19-46.
Dietz, J.L.G. and Widdershoven, G.A.M. "Speech Acts or
Communicative Action?" Proceedings of the Second
European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht, 1991, p. 235-248.
Dietz, J.L.G. and Widdershoven, G.A.M. "A comparison of
the linguistic theories of Searle and Habermas as a basis
for communication support systems," in Linguistic
Instruments in Knowledge Engineering, R. Van der Reit, and R. Meersman, (eds.),
North-Holland, New York, 1992, p. 121-130.
Doolin, B.
"Power and resistance in the implementation of a medical management
information system," Information Systems Journal (14:4) 2004, pp
343–362.
Doolin, B., and McLeod, L. "Towards
critical interpretivism in IS research," in: Handbook of Critical
Information Systems Research: Theory and Application, D. Howcroft
and E.M. Trauth (eds.), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2005, pp.
244-271.
Hirschheim,
R. and Klein, H. "Realizing Emancipatory Principles in
Information Systems Development: The Case for ETHICS,"
MIS Quarterly (18:1), March 1994, pp.83-109.
Klein, H. and Hirschheim, R. "The Application of
Neohumanist Principles in Information Systems
Development," in Human, Organizational, and Social
Dimensions of Information Systems Development, Avison, D, Kendall, J.E. and DeGross,
J.I. (eds.), North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 263-280.
Kvasny, L., and Keil, M. "The challenges of redressing the digital
divide: a tale of two US cities," Information Systems Journal (16)
2006, pp 23-53.
Kvasny, L., and Richardson, H. "Critical
research in information systems: looking forward, looking back,"
Information Technology & People (19:3) 2006, pp
196-202.
Lyytinen, K. "Information systems
and critical theory," in Critical Management Studies, M. Alvesson, and
H. Willmott (eds.), Sage Publications, London, 1992, pp. 159180.
Lyytinen, K., and Hirschheim, R. "Information systems as a rational
discourse: an application of Habermas' theory of communicative action,"
Scandinavian Journal of Management Studies
(4:1-2) 1988, pp 19-30.
Lehtinen, E., and Lyytinen, K. "Action based model of
information system," Information Systems (2:4), 1986, pp.
299317.
Lyytinen, K. and Ngwenyama, O.K. "What does computer
support for cooperative work mean? A structurational
analysis of computer supported cooperative work,"
Accounting, Management and Information Technologies
(2:1), 1992, pp. 19-37.
Madsen, K.H. "Breakthrough by Breakdown," in
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Klein and K. Kumar (eds.), 1989, pp.
41-53.
McGrath, K. "Doing critical research in
information systems: a case of theory and practice not informing each other,"
Information Systems Journal (15) 2005, pp 85-101.
Mingers, J.C. "Towards an Appropriate Social Theory for
Applied Systems Thinking: Critical Social Theory and Soft
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41-49.
Murray, F. "Techical rationality and the IS specialist:
Power, discourse and identity," Critical Perspectives
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Myers, M.D. "A disaster for everyone to see: an
interpretive analysis of a failed IS project,"
Accounting, Management and Information Technologies
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Myers, M.D. "Dialectical hermeneutics: a theoretical
framework for the implementation of information systems,"
Information Systems Journal (5:1), 1995, pp. 51-70.
Myers, M.D. "Critical Ethnography in Information
Systems," in: Information Systems and Qualitative Research, A.S. Lee,
J. Liebenau and J.I. DeGross (eds.), Chapman and Hall, London, 1997, pp. 276-300.
Myers, M. D., Klein, H. K., 2011. A Set of Principles for Conducting Critical
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Myers, Michael D. And Leslie W. Young. "Hidden Agendas,
Power, and Managerial Assumptions in Information Systems
Development: An Ethnographic Study," Information
Technology & People, (10:3), 1997, pp. 224-240.
Abstract: A number of
researchers have drawn attention to the way in which
information systems development is an inherently
political activity. This paper, using the critical
social theory of Jurgen Habermas, discusses the
development of an information system in mental health.
Using critical ethnography, the authors revealed
otherwise hidden agendas, power, and managerial
assumptions to be deeply embedded in the project. This
study raises broader questions about the extent to which
information systems can be seen as "colonizing
mechanisms".
Ngwenyama, O.K. "The
Critical Social Theory Approach to Information Systems:
Problems and Challenges," in Information Systems
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H-E. Nissen, H.K. Klein, R.A. Hirschheim (eds.),
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Ngwenyama,
O.K. and Lee, A.S. "Communication Richness in Electronic
Mail: Critical Social Theory and the Contextuality of
Meaning," MIS Quarterly (21:2), 1997, pp.
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Orlikowski, W.J. "Integrated Information Environment or
Matrix of Control? The Contradictory Implications of
Information Technology," Accounting, Management and
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Orlikowski, W.J. & Baroudi, J.J. "Studying Information
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Richardson, H., and Robinson, B. "The mysterious case of
the missing paradigm: a review of critical information systems research
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Truex, D., and Howcroft, D. "Critical Analyses of ERP Systems: The Macro Level (1),"
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Alvesson, M., and Willmott, H. (eds.). Critical
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Broadbent, J., Laughlin, R. and Read, S. "Recent
Financial and Administrative Changes in the NHS: A
Critical Theory Analysis," Critical Perspectives on
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Feenberg, A. Critical Theory of Technology.
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Forester, John. "Critical ethnography: on field work in
an Habermasian way," in Critical Management Studies,
M. Alvesson, and H. Willmott (eds.), Sage Publications,
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Giddens, A. The Constitution of Society: Outline of
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Habermas, J. The Theory of Communicative Action:
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Held, D.Introduction to
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McCarthy, T. The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas,
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982.
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