Information Technology and Organizations

Strategies, Networks, and Integration

Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, David Knights, Dale Littler (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

1999
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-829611-9 (ISBN)

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This is a book about IT in organizations how it works, how it changes organization and the problems and challenges it creates. Based on detailed research in several sectors (financial services, hospitals etc.) the authors present an up to date analysis of current issues. The book is divided into three main sections: Strategies and Markets; Integrating Technology and Organization; and Networks.

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.

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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?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.11.1999
Zusatzinfo	3 figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 233 mm
Gewicht	325 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-19-829611-8 / 0198296118
ISBN-13	978-0-19-829611-9 / 9780198296119
Zustand	Neuware