first post : 5 papers that have had a profound impact on my thinking

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They are (not in any specific order) :

The Merchant of Prato-Revisited: Toward a Third Rationality of Information Systems
Kuldeep Kumar, Han G. van Dissel, Paola Bielli
MIS Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 199-226

Symbolism and Information Systems Development: Myth, Metaphor, and Magic
Hirschheim, R., and Newman, M.
Information Systems Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1991, pp. 29-62.

Integrating Positivist and Interpretive Approaches to Organizational Research
Lee, A. S.
Organization Science, (2), 1991, pp. 342-365.

The truth is out there: the search for emancipatory principles in information systems design
F.A. Wilson
Information Technology & People, Sep 1997, Vol 10, Issue 3, Page: 187 – 204

A Confessional Account of an Ethnography about Knowledge Work
Ulrike Schultze
MIS Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 2000), pp. 3-41