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9780198289395

Information Technology and Organizations Strategies, Networks, and Integration

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    9780198289395

  • ISBN10:

    0198289391

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-05-29
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book is concerned with the ways in which organizations design, build and use information technology systems. In particular it looks at the interaction between these IT-centred activities and the broader management processes within organizations. The authors adopt a critical socialscience 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 andcritical organization theory. The result is an account of the nature and significance of information systems in organizations which is an alternative perspective to pragmatic and recipe-based approaches to this topic which dominate much contemporary management literature on IT.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Problematic of Information Technology and Organization
1(12)
Brian P. Bloomfield
Rod Coombs
David Knights
Dale Littler
PART 1: STRATEGIES AND MARKETS
`We Should Be Total Slaves to the Business': Aligning Information Technology and Strategy--Issues and Evidence
13(23)
David Knights
Faith Noble
Hugh Willmott
Markets, Managers, and Messages: Managing Information Systems in Financial Services
36(21)
David Knights
Fergus Murray
Paradigm Thinking and Strategy Development: Marketing Strategy in Information and Communication Technology Sectors
57(28)
Dominic Wilson
Dale Littler
Margaret Bruce
PART 2: INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATION
Paper Traces: Inscribing Organizations and Information Technology
85(27)
Brian P. Bloomfield
Theo Vurdubakis
Doctors as Managers: Constructing Systems and Users in the National Health Service
112(25)
Brian P. Bloomfield
Rod Coombs
Jenny Owen
Paul Taylor
PART 3: NETWORKS
Networking as Knowledge Work: A Study of Strategic Inter-Organizational Development in the Financial Services Industry
137(23)
David Knights
Fergus Murray
Hugh Willmott
Putting Information Technology in its Place: Towards Flexible Integration in the Network Age?
160(21)
Fergus Murray
Hugh Willmott
Index 181

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