Responsible management of information systems / Bernd Carsten Stahl.

By: Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Hershey PA : Idea Group Pub., c2004. Description: xi, 257 p. ; 27 cmISBN: 1591401720 (hardcover); 9781591401728; 1591402824 (softcover); 1591401739 (ebook)Subject(s): Information technology -- Management | Information technology -- Moral and ethical aspects | Information resources management -- Moral and ethical aspects | Business ethics | Social responsibility of businessDDC classification: 658.4028 LOC classification: HD30.2 | .S77 2004Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC Information Systems and Business Information Technology -- Ethics and Morality -- The German Tradition -- Kant's Moral Philosophy -- Habermas' Discourse Ethics -- The French Tradition -- Michel de Montaigne and Moralism -- Paul Ricoeur and the Other -- Problems of the Distinction Between Ethics and Morality -- Why Responsibility and Information Systems? -- A Tentative Definition of Responsibility -- The Rise of Responsibility -- Society, Risk, and Responsibility -- Technology and Risk -- Strategies of Handling Risk -- Society, Modernity, and IT -- Responsibility as the Answer to Our Problems -- The Similarity of Information Systems and Responsibility -- The Theory of Responsibility and Information Systems -- Definition of Responsibility -- Meanings of Responsibility -- Objectives of Responsibility -- Problems of Responsibility and Information Systems -- Conditions of Responsibility -- The Subject of Responsibility -- The Object of Responsibility -- The Instance of Responsibility -- Types of Responsibility -- The Temporal Aspect of Responsibility -- Reflective and Transitive Ascription -- Excuses and Exemptions -- Two Sorts of Responsibility in Information Systems and Their Resulting Problems -- Reflective Responsibility -- Common Features of Responsibility -- Reflective Application of the Shared Features of Responsibility -- Consequences of Reflective Responsibility -- Theoretical Consequences -- Prudence -- Realisability -- Accountability -- Institutions -- Imputation.

Summary: "This book discusses the question of how information systems can be used and managed in a responsible manner. Normative problems such as intellectual property, privacy, power distribution etc. are at the heart of many of the problems faced by users and managers of information systems. Responsible Management of Information Systems offers a novel approach to addressing these problems. This book takes these problems seriously but avoids the pitfall of ethical simplicity as expressed by some of the current approaches to computer or information ethics."--Jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	658.4028 STR 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		27123
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Circulation Section	Non-fiction	658.4028 STR 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-2	Available		27124

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-247) and index.

TOC Information Systems and Business Information Technology --
Ethics and Morality --
The German Tradition --
Kant's Moral Philosophy --
Habermas' Discourse Ethics --
The French Tradition --
Michel de Montaigne and Moralism --
Paul Ricoeur and the Other --
Problems of the Distinction Between Ethics and Morality --
Why Responsibility and Information Systems? --
A Tentative Definition of Responsibility --
The Rise of Responsibility --
Society, Risk, and Responsibility --
Technology and Risk --
Strategies of Handling Risk --
Society, Modernity, and IT --
Responsibility as the Answer to Our Problems --
The Similarity of Information Systems and Responsibility --
The Theory of Responsibility and Information Systems --
Definition of Responsibility --
Meanings of Responsibility --
Objectives of Responsibility --
Problems of Responsibility and Information Systems --
Conditions of Responsibility --
The Subject of Responsibility --
The Object of Responsibility --
The Instance of Responsibility --
Types of Responsibility --
The Temporal Aspect of Responsibility --
Reflective and Transitive Ascription --
Excuses and Exemptions --
Two Sorts of Responsibility in Information Systems and Their Resulting Problems --
Reflective Responsibility --
Common Features of Responsibility --
Reflective Application of the Shared Features of Responsibility --
Consequences of Reflective Responsibility --
Theoretical Consequences --
Prudence --
Realisability --
Accountability --
Institutions --
Imputation.

"This book discusses the question of how information systems can be used and managed in a responsible manner. Normative problems such as intellectual property, privacy, power distribution etc. are at the heart of many of the problems faced by users and managers of information systems. Responsible Management of Information Systems offers a novel approach to addressing these problems. This book takes these problems seriously but avoids the pitfall of ethical simplicity as expressed by some of the current approaches to computer or information ethics."--Jacket.

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