MIKE: Management, Information and Knowledge Ecology

MIKE: Management, Information and Knowledge Ecology

Petia Venkova Sice, Steven Anthony Thirkle, Suzannah A. Ogwu
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/IJSS.2018010102
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Abstract

This article takes an ecological perspective that views management systems and information systems as dimensions of the overall business platform. The concepts of double-loop learning and knowledge creation are found to be useful in contemplating, explaining and evaluating the role of Information Systems in organisations. It is argued that the role of information systems is to support, facilitate and improve the knowledge creation and knowledge implementation processes in the organisation the skills of awareness and reflection need to be enacted within the communication processes of organizations. Dialogue is considered fundamental to learning and creativity.
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Background

The concept of learning has existed in the management literature for quite a while. However, there is a considerable gap between the terminology and the conceptual base of management literature and that of the Information Systems (IS) field. (Waring and Wainwright, 2004; Sice et al., 2008; Small et al., 2008) The authors consider that this gap is detrimental to seeing a holistic picture where Information Systems are studied as simply another dimension of the organizational platform, an added attribute that is to be thought of separately.

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