Information Technology and the Structuring Process
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MIT_CISR_WP_162_Information_Technology_and_The_Structuring_Process_Lee_Robertson.pdf
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Author(s)
Lee, Soonchul
Robertson, David
Date Issued
August 1, 1987
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass.: Center for Information Systems Research, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Citation
Lee, Soonchul and David Robertson. “Information Technology and the Structuring Process.” Working paper 162, Center for Information Systems Research, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/175339.
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MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 1924-87
CISR Working Paper 162
Abstract
We believe that information technology (IT) will have important impacts on the structuring of organizations, and that these impacts will in turn affect organizational effectiveness. Three dimensions of organizational structuring were identified as important: centralization-decentralization, role change and connectedness. The impacts of IT on each of these dimensions were measured. These impacts were then used to explain various dimensions of organizational effectiveness. To explore these relationships, data was collected from 136 users of well-established information systems. The data provided support for the idea-that IT can have important effects on the effectiveness of organizations by changing organizations' structuring processes.
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