Information Technology and Organizational Transformation

This book discusses a holistic approach to organizations. It explores alternative organizational forms and work practices, the use and availability of information systems, evolving skill requirements, the innovative power of information technology, the creation of knowledge, and the reshaping of industrial sectors. Presents forward-looking, exciting topics. Breaks the boundaries of functionally-based, overly deterministic information literature.

Bob Galliers is internationally renowned for his leading edge work on IT and organizational change. Chairman of Warwick Business School, UK, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Walter Baets is Dean of Research at the recently established Euro-Arab Management School, Granada, Spain. Their transdisciplinary, cross-cultural and reflective approach to this most key of management topics makes this volume essential reading for those charged with studying and/or leading the visioning and implementation of organizational change on the back of IT.