Crowe, Malcolm.

Constructing systems and information : a process view / Malcolm Crowe, Richard Beeby and John Gammack. - New York ; London : McGraw-Hill, 1996. - 264p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - The McGraw-Hill information systems, management and strategy . - McGraw?Hill information systems, management and strategy series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Introduction and orientation 2.A constructivist approach to systems 3.Science and constructivism 4.Designed and engineering systems 5.Engienering design and human activity systems 6.Organizations as systems 7.Information and organizations 8.Information requirements modelling in a context of change 9.Information systems implementation.

Aiming to provide a new, end-user view of information systems provision for advanced undergraduates, this text adopts a constructivist philosophy to examine systems in the natural and social sciences, drawing conclusions for IS development.

9780077079628 (hbk.) : £24.95 0077079620 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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System design.
Information storage and retrieval systems.
Libraries and Museums.
Cybernetics & systems theory
Systems analysis & design

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