IT Governance in the Light of Paradox--A Social Systems Theory Perspective

Author

Ask, U. ; Bjornsson, H. ; Johansson, Mikael ; Magnusson, Jesper ; Nilsson, A.

Author_Institution

Gothenburg Sch. of Bus., Econ. & Law, Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg

fYear

2007

fDate

Jan. 2007

Abstract

This paper uses Niclas Luhmann´s concepts of paradox and deparadoxization as a starting point for looking at IT governance within large, Swedish organizations. All in all a total of 25 organizations within both the public and private sector have been investigated through interviews with the companies Chief Information Officers. The results are presented in relation to a number of areas within the study that could be identified as dichotomies, or areas where the respondents had to deal with conflicting logics. The results are discussed in general terms in relation to IT governance practice as well as the potential value of applying Luhmann´s theory of social systems to the study of IT governance

Keywords

DP management; socio-economic effects; IT governance; Niclas Luhmann concepts; Swedish organizations; deparadoxization; paradox concept; social systems theory; Business; Companies; Logic; Optical reflection; Organizing; Potential well; Rhetoric; Switches; Tail; Telescopes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2007. HICSS 2007. 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2007.305

Filename

4076853