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As new organisational forms require management information and control systems to exist and interact through connective metasystems (more than simply networks) such as the Internet, so the need for change in the theory and practice of information systems audit provides a critical focus for significant issues in current methodological approaches to the development of business information systems and in the epistemological assumptions which are made about such systems.
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Gilligan, J. (1995). Audit and the Net. In: Ellis, K., Gregory, A., Mears-Young, B.R., Ragsdell, G. (eds) Critical Issues in Systems Theory and Practice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9883-8_56
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