چکیده:
Despite the fact that IT has become a fundamental variable for organizational design, very few studies have been conducted to expl ore this vital issue in a systematic and convincing fashion. Indeed, ihe small amount of information and the few theories available on organizational design in general, and much less on the effects of IT on organization design is surprising. Most studies on the effects of IT on organizational design describe IT in general terms which have led to a non-generalizable and even contradictory results. The divergence in findings of previous research to some extent emerge partly from lack of a systematic approach to evaluate all the variables affecting organizational design. The current research attempts to address this problem by developing a contingency framework within which the impact of information technology (IT) on organizational design variables, and simultaneously a number of variables of interest and their relationship together are explored. To pursue these objectives, foremost the direci effects of IT on four organizational design variables (decision making, control, position and Normalization) will be examined. Second, in addition to evaluating the direct effects of IT, based on a conceptual theory in the framework of FIT as gestalts approach, we also viewed this relationship from a contingency theory perspective at three levels: organizational, individual and technological. In order to obtain rich data to explain the processes of change, while still being able to quantitatively measure and statistically analyze the impact of advanced technologies on organizational design, a survey instrument will be utilized with a target population of 400 Iranian manufacturing companies.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The current research attempts to address this problem by developing a contingency framework within which the impact of information technology (IT) on organizational design variables, and simultaneously a number of variables of interest and their relationship together are explored.
Second, in addition to evaluating the direct effects of IT, based on a conceptual theory in the framework of FIT as gestalts approach, we also viewed this relationship from a contingency theory perspective at three levels: organizational, individual and technological.
In order to obtain rich data to explain the processes of change, while still being able to quantitatively measure and statistically analyze the impact of advanced technologies on organizational design, a survey instrument will be utilized with a target population of 400 Iranian manufacturing companies.
Information Technology, Organizational Design, Decision Making INTRODUCTION Over the past decades, many papers have been published on the effects of Information Technology (IT) on organizations.
(View the image of this page) Figure 1: Forces Affecting Organizational Design [48] Technology: a survey of leading experts in the information systems area identified two groups of information technologies that were expected to have the largest impact on organizations in the future.
[55 | The re1‹ititnaship betwccn development of information technology and structural options is shown in f'i urc (View the image of this page) I° i gurc 2: lJ Development and Structural Options iii ()reanizat i‹inuI Design tone objective of this research is to develop a theoretical trance work to ev‹i1iiatc the cffficts of I I’ on organizational dcs ign.