Technology can influence the nature of work performed by information systems and information technology professionals. This study aims to identify technologies and tasks performed by information systems and information technology professionals in a range of business organisations in Singapore....

Group members’ attitudes toward social processes and media properties are likely to change as members interact and gain experience with each other and technology in computer‐supported environments. Moreover, these attitudes are likely to evolve differently. This study examines...

The series of articles focuses on the need to ignore the many acronym‐based initiatives and programmes that tend to drive business performance. The author recommends that people must play a critical role in any performance improvement initiative people working in an effective team environment...

Today′s demanding and ever‐changing environment is challenging the conventional approach in every function and facet. The measures of performance which an organisation adopts to motivate and direct effort eed reassessment in order to ensure that they are consistent with the goals of the...

Competitive edge will not come from cost alone in the European Single Market, nor in competition with the Far East. ICL provides a case study of an IT manufacturing company in transition. Realignment in the marketplace requires above all the successful management of change in people, attitudes...

We study how the heterogeneity of agents affects the extent to which changes in financial incentives can pull a group out of a situation of coordination failure. We focus on the connections between cost asymmetries and leadership. Experimental subjects interact in groups of four in a series of...

This paper examines changes in the organization of the Spanish cotton industry from 1720 to 1860 in its core region of Catalonia. As the Spanish cotton industry adopted the most modern technology and experienced the transition to the factory system, cotton spinning and weaving mills became...

This paper proposes a review of the literature on the analysis of organizational change. Part 1 identifies three main factors of institutional change: competition, technological change and evolution in the institutional environment. Part 2 discusses industrial dynamics’ approaches of the...

The recent literature on the productivity gains due to the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) has stressed the importance of the complementarities between ICT and organizational change. The ICT enable to process and diffuse a large amount of information. The reduction...