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At the close of this decade, and the “official beginning” of the new millennium, we continue to see the technologization of our social worlds, workplace, homelife and so on In organizations, the focus of much of our research, IT has become pervasive. The proliferation of electronic communication, collaborative, ERP, supply chain management and web technologies have all challenged our fundamental assumptions about organizations, organizing and work. Through the decade of the 1990s, IFIP W.G. 8.2 has responded to the challenges of demystifying these new information technologies and explicating their implications for everyday organizational life and activity. As a group of critically oriented scholars, we have been fortunate to engage with each other in a journey of inquiry during this last decade of the millennium that has been both exciting and rewarding. Throughout this decade, we have continued to inquire into the meaning of IT for everyday organizational life, engage in the key theoretical issues of our time and advance the state of knowledge of these new information technologies. In 1990, we began the decade of inquiry and critical debate with the Conference on Information Systems Research: Contemporary Approaches and Emergent Traditions, Copenhagen, Denmark. In Copenhagen, we reflected upon the path that our working group (8.2) had followed, and how the traditions of research and practice that we had cultivated over the previous decade would serve us in this decade. We examined our research approaches and methods in the light of some important research questions that were emerging. In the following year, we responded to the influx of new communication and collaborative technologies into organizations, and offered a critical analysis of them in our conference on Collaborative Work, Social Communications and Information Systems, Hanasaari, Finland (1991). In Hanasaari, we turned a critical lens on the concepts of communication and collaboration underlying the technologies of the time and revealed some of their shortcomings We had some heated debates on the organizational implications of these technologies, raised questions about their naiveté and pushed to conceptualize new forms of communication and collaboration technologies to over come their shortcomings.
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Ngwenyama, O.K., Introna, L.D., Myers, M.D. (1999). Building on a Decade of Research on It and Organizations. In: Ngwenyama, O., Introna, L.D., Myers, M.D., DeGross, J.I. (eds) New Information Technologies in Organizational Processes. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35566-5_1
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