Organizational learning and management information systems

T he articles in this issue ofDATA BASE were chosen b y Anthony G . Hopwood, who is a professor of accounting and financial reporting at the London Graduate Schoo l of Business Studies . The articles contain important ideas , Professor Hopwood wrote, of significance to all intereste d in information systems, be they practitioners or academics . The authors, with their professional affiliations at th e time, were Chris Argyris, Graduate School of Education , Harvard University; Bo Hedberg and Sten Jonsson, Department of Business Administration, University o f Gothenburg; J . Frisco den Hertog, N . V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken, The Netherlands, and Michael J . Earl, Oxford Centre for Management Studies . The articles appeared originally in Accounting, Organizations and Society, a publication of which Professor Hopwood is editor-in-chief. AOS exists to monitor emergin g developments and to actively encourage new approaches and perspectives .