The Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195063589 ISBN 13: 9780195063585

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This is the final report of a major research programme at the Sloan School. The programme was initiated in 1984, under extensive corporate sponsorship, to explore the influence of Information Technology (IT) on the way in which organizations will be able to survive and prosper in the competitive environment of the 1990s and beyond. The book contains an introduction by Michael Scott Morton, and covers the following topics: the IT platform, IT and strategic management, IT and the new organization, IT and human dynamics, and IT impact on organization change and implementation. Each chapter has been written in non-technical language, includes little or no research methodology, and begins with an Executive Summary.

Contributors: Stuart E. Madnick, Joanne Yates, Robert I. Benjamin, Julio J. Rotemberg, Garth Saloner, N. Venkatraman, K. Hugh Macdonald, John F. Rockart, James E. Short, Paul Osterman, Robert B. McKersie, and Richard E. Walton.

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Review:

This exhaustively researched volume should appeal to those managing the IT process. (Business Outlook and Economic Review)

well worth reading (ICL Technical Journal)

From the Back Cover:

The Corporation of the 1990's presents an expert view of how information technology will influence organizations and their ability to survive and prosper in this decade and beyond.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0195063589
• ISBN 13: 9780195063585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Morton Michael S. Scott