Organizational Knowledge and Technology: An Action-Oriented Perspective on Organization and Information Systems

✍ Scribed by Rodrigo Magalhaes

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Edition: illustrated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book attempts to make sense of a new area of integrated study, namely information systems and information technology (IS/IT) and the organization. It also aims to bring this mix into the broader theme of complexity as applied to organization and management and to draw useful conclusions about how to organize and how to manage IS/IT in the knowledge era. The author argues in favor of a more action-oriented - as opposed to planning dominated - approach to information systems management.

✦ Table of Contents

Team DDU......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables and box......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 Causes and consequences of information technology......Page 27
3 Complexity and the new epistemological foundations of organization......Page 52
4 Organizational paradigms: old and new......Page 81
5 Strategy as managerial action......Page 109
6 Evolving perspectives on IS/IT implementation......Page 136
7 An action-based view of IS/IT strategic alignment......Page 169
8 Notes on IS/IT strategic development......Page 198
9 Conclusion......Page 227
Bibliography......Page 238
Index......Page 258