Risk, Complexity and ICT

Edited by Ole Hanseth and Claudio Ciborra

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Abstract: This book explores the challenges regarding risks and risk management related to the growing complexity of ICT solutions. The main argument of the book is that the complexity of ICT solutions has continued to grow throughout the history of ICT, and that it has now reached a level that goes beyond our current understanding of solutions and our methods of dealing with them. The contributors demonstrate how the complexity of ICT solutions is increased by various integration efforts. Drawing upon theories of risk society and reflexive modernization, various case studies are used to demonstrate efforts aimed at controlling and managing the complexities of various ICT solutions. Paradoxically, these control and management measures are shown to increase rather than decrease complexity and risk.

Keywords: Innovations and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781845426613
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Integration–Complexity–Risk – The Making of Information Systems Out-of-Control

Ole Hanseth

Ch 2 Digital Technologies and Risk: A Critical Review

Claudio Ciborra

Ch 3 Information Technology, Contingency and Risk

Jannis Kallinikos

Ch 4 Complexity and Risk

Ole Hanseth

Ch 5 Reflexive Integration in the Development and Implementation of an Electronic Patient Record System

Ole Hanseth, Edoardo Jacucci, Miria Grisot and Margunn Aanestad

Ch 6 From Risk Management to ‘Organized Irresponsibility’? Risks and Risk Management in the Mobile Telcom Sector

Jennifer Blechar and Ole Hanseth

Ch 7 The Duality of Risk and the Evolution of Danger in Global ICT Integration

Daniel Osei-Joehene and Claudio Ciborra

Ch 8 When is an Intranet? The Topsy-Turvy Unfolding of a Web-Based Information System

Claudio Ciborra

Ch 9 When is an Intranet? The topsy-turvy unfolding of a web-based information system

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