This is a book I want to buy, would recommend to colleagues, and would seriously consider using in my teaching. " - Debra Howcroft, University of Manchester, UK 'In Risk, Complexity and ICT, Ole Hanseth and Claudio Ciborra compile an important new treatise on socio-technical issues. This book is required reading for practitioners to build complex information systems, especially in mission-critical applications, and for researchers who study the challenges of building systems and the impact of ICT on the organization and the community. King, University of Michigan, USA This book explores the challenges of risk and risk management associated with growing complexity of ICT solutions. The main argument of this book is that the complexity of ICT solutions continues to grow throughout the history of ICT, and that has now reached a level that surpasses our understanding and methods of solutions we deal with them. Drawing on the theory of risk society and reflexive modernization, the various case studies used to demonstrate the efforts aimed at controlling and managing the complexity of ICT solutions. Paradoxically, these management and control measures are shown to increase rather than reduce complexity and risk. Researchers, academics and students interested in information systems management, organizational studies, and science and technology will find much to interest them in this book illuminating, as will the ICT practitioner and manager of information systems.