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• IT assets, organizational capabilities, and firm performance: How resource allocations and organizational differences explain performance variation AI翻译
  作者：Aral, Sinan; Weill, Peter
  作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); New York University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  摘要：Despite evidence of a positive relationship between information technology (IT) investments and firm performance, results still vary across firms and performance measures. We explore two organizational explanations for this variation: differences in firms' IT investment allocations and their IT capabilities. We develop a theoretical model of IT resources, defined as the combination of specific IT assets and organizational IT capabilities. We argue that investments into different IT assets are ...
• Information technology and organizational learning: An investigation of exploration and exploitation processes AI翻译
  作者：Kane, Gerald C.; Alavi, Maryam
  作者单位：Boston College; Emory University
  摘要：T his study investigates the effects of information technology (IT) on exploration and exploitation in organizational learning (OL). We use qualitative evidence from previously published case studies of a single organization to extend an earlier computational model of organizational learning (March 1991) by introducing IT-enabled learning mechanisms: communication technology (e-mail), knowledge repositories of best practices, and groupware. We find that each of these IT-enabled learning mechan...
• Technological embeddedness and organizational change AI翻译
  作者：Volkoff, Olga; Strong, Diane M.; Elmes, Michael B.
  作者单位：Simon Fraser University; Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  摘要：While various theories have been proposed to explain how technology leads to organizational change, in general they have focused either on the technology and ignored the influence of human agency, or on social interaction and ignored the technology. In this paper, we propose a new theory of technology-mediated organizational change that bridges these two extremes. Using grounded theory methodology, we conducted a three-year study of an enterprise system implementation. From the data collected,...
• In case of fire, please use the elevator: Simulation technology and organization in fire engineering AI翻译
  作者：Dodgson, Mark; Gann, David M.; Salter, Ammon
  作者单位：University of Queensland; Imperial College London; Imperial College London
  摘要：Interorganizational projects can provide a vehicle for innovation, despite the professional and organizational barriers that confront this form of organizing. The case of fire engineering shows how such projects use simulation-technology as a boundary object to foster innovation in a new organizational field. Engineers use simulation technology to produce radical changes in fire control and management, such as using elevators to evacuate buildings during emergencies. A framework is developed t...
• Activating the informational capabilities of information technology for organizational change AI翻译
  作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
  作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University
  摘要：T his paper considers how the information enabled by information technology (IT) is implicated in organizational action. It begins by proposing that the relationship between technology appropriations and an organization's informal advice networks is one useful way to understand how the information that is created, modified, transmitted, and stored through the use of IT can lead to organizational change. I then present the findings of an ethnographic study of the implementation and use of a new...
• The influence of information technology on the use of loosely coupled organizational forms: An industry-level analysis AI翻译
  作者：Sahaym, Arvin; Steensma, H. Kevin; Schilling, Melissa A.
  作者单位：Washington State University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Grenoble Ecole Management; New York University
  摘要：Information technology (IT) enhances coordination both within the firm and between the firm and its external partners. Consequently, IT investment can promote both loosely and tightly coupled organizational forms. Indeed, in some industries, widespread investment in IT is associated with high levels of disaggregation. In other industries, this is not the case. We argue that the specific influence of IT on firm boundaries depends on the broader industrial context. We investigate conditions wher...
• Information technology and the changing fabric of organization AI翻译
  作者：Zammuto, Raymond F.; Griffith, Terri L.; Majchrzak, Ann; Dougherty, Deborah J.; Faraj, Samer
  作者单位：University of Melbourne; Santa Clara University; University of Southern California; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; McGill University
  摘要：Technology has been an important theme in the study of organizational form and function since the 1950s. However, organization science's interest in this relationship has declined significantly over the past 30 years, a period during which information technologies have become pervasive in organizations and brought about significant changes in them. Organizing no longer needs to take place around hierarchy and the collection, storage, and distribution of information as was the case with command...
• Narrative networks: Patterns of technology and organization AI翻译
  作者：Pentland, Brian T.; Feldman, Martha S.
  作者单位：Michigan State University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
  摘要：T his paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of technology in use. The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and forms. The narrative network draws on concepts from structuration theory, actor network theory (ANT), a...