The field of management emerged in response to the challenges of the industrial age that is now coming to an end. Since its inception, the information systems (IS) research community has argued that the information technology will bring fundamental challenges to the forces that underpin the way we organize our work. The IS discipline played a significant role in bringing the end of the industri...

Higher education in the fourth industrial revolution (HE 4.0) is a complex, dialectical and exciting opportunity which can potentially transform society for the better. The fourth industrial revolution is powered by artificial intelligence and it will transform the workplace from tasks based characteristics to the human centred characteristics. Because of the convergence of man and machine, it ...

Socio-Technical Systems (STS) theory is rooted in principles that have their origin in action research field projects undertaken by the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in British coal mines during postwar reconstruction of industry (Trist, 1950). This was a time when mine productivity was failing to increase despite major investments in increased mechanization, while labor turnover and a...