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• Incorporating General Systems Theory to help Analyse and Understand a Collaborating Group's Dynamics By Ranjit Makwana and Nick Bryan-Kinns. We have taken Activity Theory, and incorporated the ideas of feedback from General Systems Theory to develop a framework which allows us to describe and analyse collaborating groups.
  
• Networking on the Network by Phil Agre.
  
• Information systems development as action research - soft systems methodology and structuration theory Ph.D. thesis by Jeremy Rose.
  
• DSS -- A Brief History of Decision Support Systems by D.J. Power.
  
• Strategies for Building America's 21st Century Workforce to expand the IT workforce.
  
• DSS -- What is a Decision Support System? by D.J. Power.
  
• Task groups and communities compared Can results from task groups be transferred to communities? By Janine Swaak, Carla Verwijs, and Ingrid Mulder.
  
• Information systems, power and organisational relations a critical analysis of the changes in organisational relations surrounding the implementation of a large information system in a New Zealand hospital.
  
• A Framework For MIS Effectiveness by Jamal Munshi, Sonoma State University. Academy of Business Administration, 1996 International Conference, July 10-17, Athens, Greece.
  
• Effective Virtual Teams Through Communities Of Practice This paper examines the nature of virtual teams. It presents a framework for categorising them and argues that Communities of Practice might help overcome some of the barriers to their effective use.
  
• An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Information Systems Productivity and the Role of Outsourcing Policy a detailed perspective of the IS outsourcing policy decisions with specific focus on business strategy and financial considerations, which have been generally treated separately in this context. By Yogesh Malhotra.
  
• The development and use of Executive Information Systems The results of a study that contributes to the body of knowledge of EIS and should be of interest to both the academic and professional EIS communities.
  
• Implementing an EIS ( Executive Information System ) By Floyd Kelly. An EIS is a tool that provides direct on-line access to relevant information about aspects of a business that are of particular interest to the senior manager. CEO Review.