Co-Creating Innovative Tourist Experiences: Towards an Integrative Framework

Towards an Integrative Framework for Software Architecture

A new integrative framework for software architecture is proposed, based on solid notions from traditional architecture. It combines elements taken from the Unified Process Model, that has been adjusted to this end, and a generic model for information management. It is argued that this framework can contribute to the development of higher quality software.

Towards an integrative Theoretical Framework of IT-Mediated interruptions

Whilst contemporary information technology (IT) fosters ongoing connectivity and offers organisational advantages, it can also create unintended outcomes due to task disruption. However, despite a strong interest of scholars and practitioners in IT-mediated interruptions, they are scarcely addressed in information systems (IS) research, and our understanding about their nature and effects is li...

Sustainability assessment of energy technologies: towards an integrative framework

To be able to design and use energy technologies with regard to the needs of sustainable development, sustainability assessments are necessary prior to the respective decisions. However, as is known, they pose methodological problems: from the difficulties of anticipation of future developments via the determination of assessment criteria through to the necessity to define sustainable developme...

towards an integrative approach to trauma study

WORLD FUTURES A Complexity Approach to Co-creating an Innovative Environment

The distinguishing characteristic of complex co-evolving systems is their ability to create new order. In human systems this may take the form of new ways of working or relating, new ideas for products, procedures, artefacts, or even the creation of a different culture or a new organisational form. The paper will explore the creation of new order using the principles of complexity and the conce...