Organisations will look radically different in the next century as a direct result of our improved ability to process information and the disappearance of such traditional barriers to innovation as location and organisational boundaries. The existing literature is somewhat outdated when viewed from this perspective, being functionally based and focussing on non-traditional organisational forms. This book argues instead for a holistic approach to organisations and the integration of IS considerations into this treatment. The editors, bring together articles which highlight how our understanding of alternative organisational forms and work practices, the use and availability of information (systems), changing skill requirements, the innovative power of IT, knowledge and knowledge creation, and reshaping of industrial sectors will need to be radically reformed.
Book Details:
- Author: Robert D. Galliers
- ISBN: 9780471970736
- Year Published: 1997
- Pages: 318
- BISAC: BUS055000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Reference
About the Book and Topic:
Organisations will look radically different in the next century as a direct result of our improved ability to process information and the disappearance of such traditional barriers to innovation as location and organisational boundaries. The existing literature is somewhat outdated when viewed from this perspective, being functionally based and focussing on non-traditional organisational forms. This book argues instead for a holistic approach to organisations and the integration of IS considerations into this treatment. The editors, bring together articles which highlight how our understanding of alternative organisational forms and work practices, the use and availability of information (systems), changing skill requirements, the innovative power of IT, knowledge and knowledge creation, and reshaping of industrial sectors will need to be radically reformed.
The timing for this kind of book is most apposite: a key issue at the moment is how to harness the exploding availability of information around the world to organisational goals.
Pesents forward-looking, exciting topics. * Breaks the boundaries of functionally-based, overly deterministic information literature.
About the Author
Bob Galliers is internationally renowned for his leading edge work on IT and organizational change. Chairman of Warwick Business School, UK, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Walter Baets is Dean of Research at the recently established Euro-Arab Management School, Granada, Spain. Their transdisciplinary, cross-cultural and reflective approach to this most key of management topics makes this volume essential reading for those charged with studying and/or leading the visioning and implementation of organizational change on the back of IT.