Teams, Markets and Systems: Business Innovation and Information Technology - Softcover

Ciborra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052157465X ISBN 13: 9780521574655

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Despite the waves of re-engineering, there is still a gap between the opportunities offered by information technology and the progress of business transformation. New forms of information technology offer an increasing variety of network-based applications that range from groupware to electronic commerce, but its applications lack a sound understanding of the link between organizational processes, information and technology. This book provides a new set of concepts and methods to design new forms of business organizations around the latest network infrastructures. Professor Ciborra uses the principles of institutional economics to propose reforms of the relationships with suppliers, customers, strategic partners, and internal work organisation, based on a different mix of three basic organizational forms: teams, markets and hierarchies. Information technology can indeed be harnessed to shape businesses and markets so as to increase the transparency of markets, the agility of hierarchies, and the effectiveness and quality of the working life of teams.

About this title

Review

"...the book offers a novel approach to system development for those interested in the organizational implications of information systems." Vijay R. Kannan Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Book Description

This book provides a new set of concepts linking the latest technology with our understanding of economic organizations. The author shows how information technology can be put to work to transform business organizations, improving their effectiveness and the quality of working life of their members.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052157465X
• ISBN 13: 9780521574655
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272