Information Systems and the Financial Crisis: Is technology to blame?
The 11th Social Study of Information Technologies workshop (SSIT11) was held at LSE on 28 March.
The financial crisis raises two provocative questions from an information systems perspective: In a global financial domain saturated with information and communication technology (ICT), why were the problems not identified? And once they were identified, why was the crisis so hard to contain?
The SSIT workshop invited leading academics and practitioners to open the discussion on the way information systems development has coped with the continuous innovation in the financial sector in the past decade; the resulting information infrastructures; and the pressures for new enterprise architectures and IS development practice at the aftermath of the crisis.
Risks and opportunities of incomplete information
Elena Esposito - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Video [116MB]
Mortgaged Future: IT’s Supporting Role in the Real Estate Finance Crisis
M. Lynne Markus - Bentley University
Chair: Chrisanthi Avgerou
Video [161MB]
Impact of the financial turmoil on information technology at ECB
Magí Clavé - Directorate of Information Systems, ECB
Video [172MB]
Information systems and their role for the financial risk management process in dynamic markets
Roman Beck - E-Finance Laboratory, Goethe University Frankfurt
Video [144MB]
Hunting the black swan? Complexity and risk management systems in the financial crisis
Rob Kauffman - Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Chair: Susan Scott
Video [133MB]
Round table: Understanding the co-evolution of ICT and Financial Services
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Magí Clavé
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Rob Kauffman
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Jean-Pierre Zigrand
Chair: Alexandros Kyrtsis
Video [345MB]
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