Some suggested preparatory readings for ISOR

We do not require you to read any particular items before you come on the course, as you will have enough reading to do during the 12 months that you are at LSE. However, some people do want to do some preparatory reading for which we recommend the following:

Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems edited by John Mingers and Leslie Willcocks, 2004, John Wiley.

Research in Information Systems: A handbook for research supervisors and their students edited by David Avison and Jan Pries-Heje, 2004, Butterworth-Heinemann.

Case Study Research : Design and Methods, Robert Yin,  (3rd ed.) 2003 Sage Publications.

There are also some items which relate specifically to each course, which may be of interest:

IS481:

Labyrinths of Information, C. Ciborra, OUP, 2002

The consequences of Information, J. Kallinikos, Edward Elgar, London, 2006

We Have Never Been Modern (trans Catherine Porter) B. Latour, Harvester, New York, 1993

From Control to Drift, C. Ciborra, Oxford University Press, 2000

IS492:

Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research, G. Morgan, London, Sage, 1983

The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process, M. Crotty, London, Sage 1998

Social theory and Philosophy for Information Systems, J. Mingers and L. Willcocks, Chicester, Wiley, 2004.

IS493:

Composing Qualitative Research, Thousand Oaks, K. Golden-Biddle and K.D. Locke, Sage, 1997

Qualitative Research in Information Systems, Eds M.D. Myers and D. Avison, London, Sage 2002

Case Study Research: Design and Methods, R. Yin, London, Sage, 2003

The Methodology Institute will provide reading lists for their courses at the start of term.