The articles in this book constitute the proceedings papers from the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference IS2000: The Social and Organizational Perspective on Research and Practice in Information Technology held June 1 0-12 2000 in Aalborg Denmark. The focus of the conference and therefore this book is on the basic aim of the working group namely the investigation of the interrelationships among four major components: information systems (IS) information technology (IT) organizations and society. This basic social and organizational perspective on research and practice in information technology may have evolved substantially since the founding ofthe group for example increasing the emphasis on IS development. The plan for the conference was partially rooted in the early WG 8.2 traditions in which working conferences were substantially composed of invited papers. For IS2000 roughly half of the paper presentations were planned to be invited; the remaining half were planned to be double-blind refereed in response to a Call For Papers. Invited papers were single-blind reviewed in order to provide the authors with pre-publication feedback and comments along with the opportunity to revise their papers prior to its final incorporation in this book.