چکیده:
The role of information technology (IT) in shaping tomorrow's operations is a distinctive one. The Internet is a pervasive phenomenon and it is commonly believed that the Internet and its inherent distributed capabilities lead to decentralized views. They have had profound effect on organizational structure, because organizations can gain enormous location flexibility in various activifies. While the Internet has overcome distance and organizations, they now have to deal with different combinations of physical and electronic spaces and places. The challenge for companies in information markets is the shift from physical to electronic infrastructures. Many researchers believe that current models of organizational stricture fail to meet the challenges of the information age. Researchers believe that the traditional hierarchy has outlived its usefulness and that new organizational models are needed and that IT lies at the heart of these new models for the next century. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the Internet on organizational structures and identify imperatives for new emerging forms of organizations in light of IT advances.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the Internet on organizational structures and identify imperatives for new emerging forms of organizations in light of IT advances.
IT, Organizational Structures, New Organizañonal Models, Electronic Infiastructure INTRODUCTION To evaluate how organizations change Brown and Eisenhardt |7] consider two theories.
In our age, the Internet can be seen as a new JulyfDeoember, 200d Irnnin• Journal of Information Science & Technology, Volume 2, i'4umber 2 bifurcation point.
Some researchers claim, the advent of Internet has increased the importance of IT and opened new opportunities that can dramatically alter the way a firm competes, for example Intranet and extranets have enabled firms to reduce costs and streamline business operations.
[13] Despite the different names, all the new 3uly/Decezobcr, 2004 Iranian Journal of Information Science & Technology, Volume 2, Number 2 forms emphasize on similar drivers: globalization [11, 16, 27, 32] the move to an information economy [2, 34, 36], flexible environment [4, 18], to be entrepreneurial and in be responsive to markets [13], and customer orientation.
Successful organizations in the 21" century must identify new imperatives and then build proper organizational structure to cope with them.
[9] Roughly 65% of IT managers believe the Internet technology has reduced costs in their organizations, and 55% say it has increased revenue.
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