Management and information technology : challenges for the modern organization / / edited by Peter Dahlin and Peter Ekman ; foreword by Lars Engwall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814251003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-44260-4; 9786613442604; 0-203-13452-4; 1-136-48187-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology ; ; 21
• Altri autori (Persone): DahlinPeter; EkmanPeter
• Disciplina: 658.4/038011
• Soggetti: Management information systems; Information technology - Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Peter Dahlin and Peter Ekman -- Balancing between entrepreneurship and control through the use of management control systems and information technology / Eva Lövstål -- The challenge of differing actor groups within an enterprise resource planning project / Gunilla Myreteg -- Expanding the knowledge structure of firms : an illustration of how organizations experiment with information technology to harness the knowledge of the masses / Leon Michael Caesarius -- Management of asynchronous and synchronous e-learning / Stefan Hrastinski -- The limitations of enterprise systems for marketers and salesmen / Peter Ekman -- Integration of information technology in business relationships : a managerial issue / Cecilia Lindh -- Internal accounting information systems and inter-organizational coordination : episodes involving balanced scorecard and differential customer accounting / Lars Frimanson -- Expansion of IT business through cross-industry mergers and acquisitions / Peter Dahlin -- Measuring the impact of IT in the Swedish logging industry / Maria Kollberg Thomassen -- IT innovation influence and industrial ; transformation : the case of the Swedish graphic industry / Mathias Cöster -- The do's and don'ts of digitization? IT and organization in health care / Pontus Fryk -- Technology acceptance research : reflections on the use of a theory / Christina Keller -- Developing patterns of explanations : methodological considerations when analyzing qualitative data / Magnus Hansson.
• Sommario/riassunto: Information technology has come to play an important role in organizations over the last few decades. Though it began as an entity dealt with by specialists, IT has evolved to become an everyday tool with both operational and strategic impacts. Most modern organizations have adopted different forms of IT, and become dependent on their computer-based information systems and their peripherals for everyday operations. Information technology offers opportunities to increase efficiency, customer value, and competitiveness.Given the financial investment in IT required by organizatio