ABSTRACT
In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the importance of social and organizational aspects of information systems. This has provided new insights into the application of information systems in organizations, and has led to a growing interest in interpretive approaches to information systems research. The interpretive approaches are based on rather different assumptions about the nature of the world and the way we can know it than traditional positivist research. A number of authors such as Boland, 1985; Zuboff, 1988; Boland and Day, 1989; Orlikowski, 1992; 1993; Jones and Nandhakumar, 1993; Walsham, 1993; Jones, 1994; DeSanctis and Poole, 1994, have adopted interpretive epistemology to seek to throw some light on the complex process of IS development practice.
