Information Technology and Organizations: Strategies, Networks, and Integration [Paperback]

This book explores the ways in which organizations design, build, and use information technology systems. In particular it looks at the interactions between these IT-centered activities and the broader management processes within organizations.

1: Introduction: The Problematic of IT and Organization (Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, David Knights, and Dale Littler
Part I: Strategies and Markets
2: 'We Should be Total Slaves to the Business': Aligning IT and Strategy - Issues and Evidence,David Knights, Faith Noble, and Hugh Willmott
3: Markets, Managers, and Messages: Managing Information Systems in Financial Services,David Knights and Fergus Murray
4: Paradigm Thinking and Strategy Development: Marketing Strategy in IT Sectors,Dominic Wilson, Dale Littler, and Margaret Bruce
Part II: Integrating Technology and Organization
5: Paper Traces: Inscribing Organizations and IT,Brian P. Bloomfield and Theo Vurdubakis
6: Doctors as Managers: Constructing Systems and Users in the NHS,Brian P. Bloomfield and Rod Coombs
Part III: Networks
7: Networking as Knowledge Work: A Study of Strategic Interorganizational Development in the Financial Service Industry,David Knights, Fergus Murray, and Hugh Willmott
8: Putting IT in its Place: Towards Flexible Integration in the Network Age?,Fergus Murray and Hugh Willmott