Information Systems and Organizational Structure

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Authors -- Introduction -- The design of computer-based information systems - a challenge to organizational research / Grochla, Erwin -- Part 1: Interrelationships between organizational structure and information system -- The measurement of organization structure and information structure / Adam, Adolf -- Discontinuities of computerization - a study of French companies / Edström, Anders / Naugès, Louis -- Integrated information systems and their effects on organizational structure / Emery, James C. -- Information processing determinants of organization structure / Galbraith, Jay R. -- The change in information flows by a Management Information Centre (MIC) / Garbe, Helmut -- The impact of computer technology on organizational power structures / Hedberg, Bo / Edström, Anders / Müller, Wolfgang / Wilpert, Bernhard -- The impact of new techniques for management control on the information system and organization / Hurst, E. Gerald -- An organizational concept for the design of Management Information Systems / Kieser, Alfred / Kubicek, Herbert -- Economics and information structure in organization design / Kriebel, Charles H. -- Comments on the influence of information technology on organizational structure in insurance industry / Schareck, Bernhard / Barten, Ewald -- Information systems for organizations of the future / Starbuck, William H. -- Changes in organizational design induced by the introduction of computerized information systems - a longitudinal study in the electricity industry / Stone, Derek -- Man, organization and computer - a contingency analysis / Whisler, Thomas L. -- Part 2: Information system development -- The Management Information System: The initiation and adoption of an organizational innovation / Duncan, Robert -- Information system and organizational concept - analysis of an innovation process from the pragmatic point of view / Göhre, Heinz -- Control structure and formalized information analysis in an organization / Langefors, Börje -- The FOUR-FLOWS MODEL as a tool for designing the information system of an organization / Le Moigne, Jean Louis -- Information economics and the notion of "Management Information System" / Mattessich, Richard -- A model for the construction of a cost-minimal communication tree / Nastansky, Ludwig / Drumm, Hans Jürgen -- Automatic interfacing of application software in the GPLAN framework / Nunamaker, Jay F. / Pomeranz, John / Whinston, Andrew -- Computer assisted analysing, controlling and constructing tools for information systems design / Savolainen, Vesa -- The use of models and associated software in the design of wicked systems / Sølvberg, Arne -- The information analysis of administrative systems based on statute law - some aspect of the Legol-project / Stamper, Ronald K. -- An introduction to computer-aided documentation of user requirements for computer-based Information Processing Systems / Teichroew, Daniel / Rataj, Walter J. / Hershey, Ernest A. -- Model management systems / Will, Hartmut J. -- Index