| Authors: Smithson,
S., Baskerville, R., and Ngwenyama, O. Date: 1994 Title: “Perspectives on Information Technology and New Emergent Forms of Organizations” Journal: Transforming Organizations with Information Technology Pages: 3 - 13 |
| emergent organizational forms, IT/IS functions, organizational transformation |
| Interest has grown in the relationship between emergent organizational forms and the IT/IS functions as developments in each field have impacted the other. While in some situations IT/IS may be seen as an enabling factor essential to achieve organizational transformation, in other cases the IT/IS function is so peripheral that outsourcing is the obvious strategy. Developments in the technology may trigger organizational change or act as a constraint on proposed changes. It was interest in this complex relationship that promoted the organizers to arrange the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Technology and New Emergent Forms of Organizations in August of 1993 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. |