Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies The Italian

Chapters of this book offer a careful selection of the best contributions to the Italian Association for Information Systems (ItAIS) Annual Conference, that took place in Venice, San Servolo Island, in October 2007. The main goal of this book is to dissem

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Alessandro D’Atri • Marco De Marco Nunzio Casalino

Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies The Italian Association for Information Systems

Physica-Verlag A Springer Company

Professor Alessandro D’Atri CeRSI Via G. Alberoni 7 00198 Roma Italy [email protected]

Professor Marco De Marco Universit`a Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli 1 20123 Milano Italy [email protected]

Dr. Nunzio Casalino CeRSI Via G. Alberoni 7 00198 Roma Italy [email protected]

ISBN 978-3-7908-2009-6

e-ISBN 978-3-7908-2010-2

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Contents

Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. D’Atri and M. De Marco

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Is Theory and Research Methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Cordella

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Interdisciplinarity and Its Research: The Influence of Martin Heidegger from ‘Being and Time’ to ‘The Question Concerning Technology’ . . . . . . . P. Depaoli

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Part I

E-Government Performance: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation Key . . . . . . 15 M. Sorrentino and M. De Marco The Tacking Knowledge Strategy Claudio Ciborra, Konrad Lorenz and the Ecology of Information Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 F. Ricciardi Part II

Is Development and Design Methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 C. Batini

Loitering with Intent: Dealing with Human-Intensive Systems . . . . . . . . . . 33 P.M. Bednar and C. Welch Modeling Business Processes with “Building Blocks” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 A. Di Leva and P. Laguzzi Software Development and Feedback from Usability Evaluations . . . . . . . 47 R.T. Høegh A Methodology for the Planning of Appropriate Egovernment Services . . 55 G. Viscusi and D. Cherubini v

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Part III Organizational Change and Impact of IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 A. Carugati and L. Mola Individual Adoption of