Information Technology and Organizations

Strategies, Networks, and Integration

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

This book is concerned with the ways in which organizations design, build and use information technology systems. In particular it looks at the interactions between these IT-centred activities and the broader management processes within organizations. The authors adopt a critical social science perspective on these issues, and are primarily concerned with advancing theoretical debates on how best to understand the related processes of technological and organizational change. To this end, the book examines and deploys recent work on power/knowledge, actor-network theory and critical organization theory. The result is an account of the nature and significance of information systems in organizations which is an alternative perspective to the pragmatic and recipe-based approaches to this topic which dominate much contemporary management literature on IT.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-11-25
Mått:156 x 233 x 11 mm
Vikt:325 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:194
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198296119

Utforska kategorier

Systemvetenskap och AI inom Data och IT
Människa – datorinteraktion inom Data och IT
Hårdvara inom Data och IT

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Recensioner i media

At the time of writing the volume is only available in hardback. This is unfortunate ... because it is a volume that would be a valuable addition of the bookshelves of anyone interested in understanding and advancing debates in organizational behaviour, information systems, strategic and marketing management, and social theory.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction: The Problematic of IT and Organization (Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, David Knights, and Dale Littler ; PART I: STRATEGIES AND MARKETS ; 2: 'We Should be Total Slaves to the Business': Aligning IT and Strategy - Issues and Evidence ; 3: Markets, Managers, and Messages: Managing Information Systems in Financial Services ; 4: Paradigm Thinking and Strategy Development: Marketing Strategy in IT Sectors ; PART II: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION ; 5: Paper Traces: Inscribing Organizations and IT ; 6: Doctors as Managers: Constructing Systems and Users in the NHS ; PART III: NETWORKS ; 7: Networking as Knowledge Work: A Study of Strategic Interorganizational Development in the Financial Service Industry ; 8: Putting IT in its Place: Towards Flexible Integration in the Network Age?