Claudio Ciborra: the Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems - Book Review

Organization Studies, Oct, 2003 by Walter Baets

These are the questions the book is likely to raise in the mind of the academic reader, who will probably need to put in more effort and to be more open-minded than the manager in order to benefit from the book. Ciborra cannot hide his roots or his interest in the world outside IS. Stimulating as this message is, the reader does tend to pay for this breadth with some baroque language. But then, labyrinths appeal to philosophical minds, and these questions need answering.

Walter Baets Universiteit Nyenrode, The Netherlands