Responsible management of information systems
Bernd Carsten Stahl
Idea Group Inc (IGI)
Responsible Management of Information Systems discusses  the question how can information systems be used and managed in a  responsible manner. It does so by first defining the central concepts  of information systems as the business use of information technology  and the underlying concepts of ethics and morality. The term  responsibility is introduced as a mediation of ethics and morality and  a promising approach to normative questions. After demonstrating that  the traditional notion of responsibility runs into many problems when  applied to information systems the book develops a new, a reflective  theory of responsibility. This theory that emphasizes the central  characteristics of responsibility, namely openness, consequentialism,  and teleology, is then applied to normative problems in information  systems. It is shown that with the use of this theory the central  moral and legal problems of information systems such as privacy or  intellectual property can be successfully addressed.