Information technology and the corporation of the 1990s : research studies
Thomas J. Allen (Editor), Michael S. Scott Morton (Editor)
This volume is a report on research, the chapters produced as part of the five-year Management in the 1990s Program at MITs Sloan School of Management. Funded by a group of 12 industrial and governmental sponsors from the United States and Britain, the program and this book is intended to accompany and support its companion, "The Corporation of the 1990s." To remain competitive in the 1990s, management will have to be innovative, develop new products and services, and respond to rapidly changing markets. Innovation is a response to changes in the market and in technology. As the market changes, firms are driven to innovate with new products and services, frequently seeking out new technology to accomplish this. Rapidly changing technology creates both new opportunities and changes in market structure. Markets are changing rapidly, while the rate of change in information technology is estimated at 20-30% per year. Information technology is now ubiquitous--integral to internal business processes, product design, delivery of services, interorganizational relations--shrinking the effects of time, distance, and altering the very nature of work. This book is intended to directly disseminate the ideas generated, to help organizations manage the impact of information technology and rapid change in markets, and most importantly, to stimulate further thought by both academics and managers
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9780195361780, 9786610533435, 0195361784, 6610533431
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I. The Information Technology Revolution1: Charles Jonscher: An Economic Study of the Information Revolution2: Michael J. Piore: Corporate Reform in American Manufacturing and the Challenge to Economic Theory3: Thomas W. Malone, Joanne Yates, and Robert I. Benjamin: Electronic Markets and Electronic Hierarchies4: Gary W. Loveman: An Assesment of the Productivity Impact of Information Technologies5: Eric Von Hippel: Determining User Needs for Novel Information-based Products and Services6: Edgar H. Schein: Innovative Cultures and OrganizationsII. Strategic Options7: Stanley M. Besen and Garth Saloner: Compatibility Standards and the Market for Telecommunications Services8: N. Venkatraman and Akbar Zaheer: Electronic Integration and Strategic Advantage: A Quasi-Experimental Study in the Insurance Industry9: John C. Henderson and N. Venkatraman: Strategic Alignment: A Model for Organizational Transformation via Information Technology10: John C. Henderson and Jay C. Cooprider: Dimensions of IS Planning and Design Aids: A Functional Model of CASE Technology11: Kevin Crowston and Thomas W. Malone: Information Technology and Work Organization12: Jeongsuk Koh and N. Venkatraman: Joint Venture Formations and Stock Market Reactions: An Assessment in the Information Technology Sector13: Gordon Walker and Laura Poppo: Profit Centers, Single-Source Suppliers, and Transaction CostsIII. The Organization and Management Response14: Edgar H. Schein: The Role of the CEO in the Management of Change: The Case of Information Technology15: John S. Carroll and Constance Perin: How Expectations About Microcomputers Influence Their Organizational Consequences16: Brian T. Pentland: End User Computing in the Internal Revenue Service17: John Chalykoff and Thomas A. Kochan: Computer-aided Monitoring: Its Influence on Employee Job Satisfaction and Turnover18: Lotte Bailyn: Toward the Perfect Work Place? The Experience of Home-based Systems Developers19: D. Eleanor Westney and Sumantra Ghoshal: Building a Competitor Intelligence Organization: Adding Value in an Information Functin20: John D. C. Little: Information Technology in Marketing21: Thomas J. Allen and Oscar Hauptman: The Influence of Communication Technologies on Organizational Structure: A Conceptual Model for Future Research22: Lisa M. Lynch and Paul Osterman: Technological Innovation and Employment in Telecommunications23: Thomas A. Kochan, John Paul MacDuffie, and Paul Osterman: Employment Security at DEC: Sustaining Values amid Environmental ChangeContributorsIndex
"Intended to accompany and support its companion, The corporation of the 1990s"--Preface
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010