Reconceptualizing the context-design issue for the information systems function

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Brown, CV; Magill, SL
• 署名单位: Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Louisville
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.9.2.176
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 176-194
• 关键词: Organization design; structure of the IS function; IS centralization/decentralization; IS alignment

摘要

Most of today's organizations are struggling with the task of devising appropriate designs to enable the successful pursuit of their strategies, given their competencies, within their particular environmental context. This manuscript provides an elegant set of arguments which should enrich the thinking of both scholars and executives regarding the decision to centralize or decentralize decision responsibilities for a set of organizational activities. While these arguments are couched in terms of a firm's application development activity, the core arguments are salient to most organizational activities.