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Information systems are used in the context of organisations. It has become very much of a truism to state that in modern Western economies the success of organisations is frequently very much dependent on the success of its information systems. In this chapter we discuss a number of models for organisations and how the concept of an information system and the development of such information systems fits within the framework of each model.
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Beynon-Davies, P. (1998). Information Systems and Organisations. In: Information Systems Development. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14931-5_3
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