Managers Divided

David Knights is a Research Professor at the University of West of England, UK, and a Guest Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He also holds Visiting Professorships in Management at the Universities of Stockholm, Sweden, and Lancaster, UK.Fergus Murray is the author of Managers Divided: Organisation Politics and Information Technology Management, published by Wiley.

• Organizational Politics and Theories of Technological Change. The Social Construction of Technology as Political Process. Responses to Complexity: Developments in IT Management andUse. The IS Specialism: Organisation, Development and Culture. Looking into User Relations. Business Application Software: Masculinity and the Making ofSoftware. Building Computer Systems at Pensco: The Pensions Project. Separate Realities: Pensco's Different Pensions Projects. The Politics and Pain of Managing Information Systems. Constructing Technology Context at Pensco: Systems, Staff andSystems Practices. The Politics of User Relations: The IS Division. Conclusion. References. Index.