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The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems
C Ciborra Oxford University Press Oxford 2002
195 pp. ISBN 0-19-924152-X L25
Keyword Information systems
Why shouldn't the kind of books reviewed in this publication look attractive? In contrast it to the many books which I receive, this book has a dust cover with a beautifully reproduced version in colour of The Musicians by Caravaggio. I cannot work out how this painting relates to the content of the book - but who cares? I knew the book would be interesting.
Claudio Ciborra is professor of information systems at the London School of Economics. He started life as an electronics engineer. He says in this book:
... it is written by a person who has neither an expert level education nor experience of participation in programming and systems development, and who has...