Information systems: Emergence of a new organizational function

✍ Scribed by Philip Ein-Dor; Eli Segev

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 784 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(82)90008-8

✦ Synopsis

of a New D.ttd phressinp unils hdve 4adergonc ;r process nt r3pld ~dv~ncemcnt x>th in tunc.Gon and orgtanizational INatIon. miituring as P separate aulc~n6mous area dcvold to intormrrinn systems. This paper is A study nt the dynamic change in (hc orgunitational location ot information units. Fifty-three org&nitcrtions trom a wide variely ot industries in a large metropolitan arca were studted. Some consistency in the IWXtion ot the intormation systems wilhin organizations have been idcntiticd. Conctel:! advice presented here may .savc readers one or more disrupting r&cations of the information systems unit m their organL:ntions. Kwww~~: Autonomous IS. intormatian unite. organizational location. organizational tunaion. El1 54egev is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Management. Tel-Aviv University. He received his D.B.A. from Hmard Business School, M.B.A. from Tel-Aviv University. and B.Sc. tram Tcchnion, Israel Institute ot Tmhnology. He h-s ublished extcnsivcly on strategic ecision m&king. B n* management use at information, and management intormation systems. and co-authored Managing Mancycment I&metion S stems (texlngcon. * '.: IX. &ath. 19711) and A Paradi m fnr hhagement Injormation Qwms (New York. N.Y.: B ncgcr, 1981). Phillip Ein4hu is a senior lecturer and Chairman ot the Information Systems Program in the Faculty ot Management. Tel-Aviv University. He rcceivcd his LA. tram Hebrew Universtt of Jcrusalrm and MSc. und Ph.D. trom Carncgie-Mel-Ion & nncrsity. Dr. Ein4or has published exlensively in the ticlds ot management intormarion syslcms and computer system mana&ement und has co-authored two books on MIS with Eli Segev.