The Information Systems Artifact: A Conceptualization Based on General Systems Theory

Sutirtha Chatterjee; Xiao Xiao; Amany Elbanna; Suprateek Sarker

doi:10.24251/HICSS.2017.689

The Information Systems Artifact: A Conceptualization Based on General Systems Theory

Sutirtha Chatterjee, Xiao Xiao, Amany Elbanna, Suprateek Sarker

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Abstract

Passionate debates regarding the defining characteristic of the “IT artifact” continue. Such debates, and also the lack of explicit consideration of the “information” element in the IT artifact, motivate us to propose a revised conception, drawing upon concepts from General Systems Theory (GST). Following a number of scholars [39], we name our reconceptualization as an IS artifact, which aims to provide a contemporary view of an IS that could accommodate the changing nature of both society and technology while at the same time maintain a clear definition of what we mean by an IS.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2017)
Subtitle of host publication	January 4-7, 2017 \|
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2017.689
Publication status	Published - 4 Jan 2017

Keywords

Information and communication technology;
IT artifact
Systems Theory
IS Discipline

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