摘要:

Studies of the impacts of new computing technologies on organizations often lead to contradictory or equivocal findings. Studies showing negative or null effects of computing are as commonplace as those showing benefits. Moreover, outcomes are nonuniform across individuals, groups, or organizational units and sometimes vary within the same study. To explain the commonality as well as the variance in the results of new technology introduction, we proposeadaptive structuration theory.The theory focuses on how technology structures are applied in interpersonal interaction and the specific nature of appropriation patterns. We illustrate the power of the theory through interpretative analysis of three teams as they adapt to use of a group decision support system over a period of eight months. The analyses highlight differences in technology impacts across the three teams and also explain some common outcomes. Our analytic approach appears to be useful in the study of organizational computing impacts in general and group decision support system effects in particular.

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399309540193

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399309540192

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Over the last five years, there has been a shift from centralized to distributed computing. Timesharing and batch systems still have uses, but the large mainframe is no longer the only way to do computing. Networks have spread computing power, access, and costs beyond centralized computer centers. Personal computers have made computing accessible to many new users. Distributed computing attempts to bring the manageability of mainframe computing together with the accessibility of networked computing and the transparency of personal computing.

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399309540194

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Agoing‐concern judgment is an important classification of a client that auditors are called upon to render. We study the collective group process of interpretation that auditors are engaged in by examining their individual interpretation processes and their interactions among themselves and with clients. The interpretation process leading to the going‐concern judgment involves four phases: (1) recognizing any potential going‐concern problems, (2) understanding the cause of those problems, (3) evaluating client plans to mitigate those problems, and (4) rendering a going‐concern judgment. We capture the process underlying a going‐concern judgment by representing thecontentandprocessof the interactions using an argumentation language.

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399309540195

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Organization design is a pervasive phenomenon that significantly impacts performance, and yet organization design activity has received little direct support from computer technology. If organization learning is viewed as the process whereby knowledge is developed, then organization design both influences the organizational learning that occurs and is at least a partial reflection of the organizational learning that has occurred. This article examines the significance, bases, and means for developing multiuser, computer‐based environments for supporting organization design and learning.

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399309540196

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

We provide an introduction to a theory of coordination mechanism design and show how to apply it to an assignment problem. The purpose is to introduce those familiar with organizational computing, but unfamiliar with game theory and economics, to the subject. We also describe briefly how we can test new mechanisms before taking them into the field. Finally, we raise some unresolved research questions.

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399309540197

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:1054-1721    

DOI:10.1080/10919399309540191

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1993

数据来源: Taylor