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Researching the Future: The Information Systems Discipline's Futures Infrastructure	p. 1
How the Future and the Past Are Connected and Inter-related
Toward an Approach to Generate Forward-Looking Theories Using Systems Concepts	p. 11
Information Systems Innovation Research: Between Novel Futures and Durable Presents	p. 27
The Present as Future: The Problem of Translation in Corporate Science Projects	p. 43
Critical View of the Future
What Does the Future Hold? A Critical View of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies and Their Social Consequences	p. 59
Rationality and Foolishness: Alternative Forecasting Systems in a Manufacturing Firm	p. 77
Technological Futures
What Future? Which Technology? On the Problem of Describing Relevant Futures	p. 95
Conceptualizing Consumer Perceptions of Making M-Payments Using Smart Phones in Ireland	p. 109
The Impact of Instant Messaging Tools on Knowledge Management and Team Performance	p. 131
The Future of Information Technology and Work-Related Practices in Health Care
Journey to DOR: A Retro Science-Fiction Story on Researching ePrescribing	p. 151
The Standardized Nurse: Mission Impossible?	p. 163
The Role of Technology in Shaping the Professional Future of Community Pharmacists: The Case of the Electronic Prescription Service in the English National Health Service	p. 179
The Future of Industrial-Institutional Practices and Outcomes through Information Technology
From Forestry Machines to Sociotechnical Hybrids: Investigating the Use of Digitally Enabled Forestry Machines	p. 199
Lessons from Volunteering and Free/Libre Open Source Software Development for the Future of Work	p. 215
Investigating Open Innovation and Interorganizational Networks in the IT Industry: The Case of Standard Software Customization	p. 231
The Future of Critical Realism in IS Research
Systems of Innovation, Multidisciplinarity, and Methodological Pluralism: A Realist Approach to Guide the Future of Information Systems Research and Practice	p. 249
Critical Realist Information Systems Research in Action	p. 269
Panels and Workshop
The Social Design of Information Systems	p. 287
Teaching Foresight and the Future	p. 291
Will Current Trends in Information Systems Development Lead to More Visible Usage of Socio-technical Approaches?	p. 295
Methods for Studying the Information Systems Future	p. 299
Author Index	p. 317
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