Despite a generally-acknowledged importance of information technology (IT) in enabling global strategy and a broad understanding of the manner in which IT enhances coordination and reduces cost, few studies have focused precisely on how multinational corporations (MNCs) use IT to facilitate...

1. Introduction / Peter Dahlin and Peter Ekman -- 2. Balancing between entrepreneurship and control through the use of management control systems and information technology / Eva L ovst al -- 3. The challenge of differing actor groups within an enterprise resource planning project / Gunilla...

<P>Preface</P><I><P>Peter Ekman, Peter Dahlin and Christina Keller</P></I><P></P><P>Foreword</P><I><P>Fredrik Nilsson and Fredrik Tell</P><P></P></I><B><P>1.</B> Perspectives on Management and Information Technology after Digital Transformation </P><I><P>Peter Ekman, Peter Dahlin and Christina Keller</P></I><P></P><B><P>2.</B> Digital Transformation: Toward a New Perspective for Large...</p></b></p></p></i></p></b></p></p></i></p></p></p></i></p>

Purpose – Research has shown that companies focus their internal processes when they adopt enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. However, the ERP systems need to expand their functionality to include customers and suppliers (with e-commerce functionality) to reach their full potential....

Purpose – This study aims to investigates the possible gap between the logic of these information technology (IT) systems and industrial firms’ marketing practices. Industrial firms rely extensively on IT systems for their business. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the contemporary...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse how well enterprise systems capture the business network in which an industrial company is involved. Enterprise systems have been presented as a “dream come true” with a seamless integration of business data through a common database and software...

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...