IS, Organization and Strategy
Factors that influence the relationship between organization and information system
-Structure -Business processes -Politics -Culture -Environment -Management decisions
Behavioral definition of organization
A collection of rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities that is delicately balanced over a period of time through conflict and conflict resolution
Disruptive Technology
A technology that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry, or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry.
Transaction Cost Theory
A theory that states the goal of an organization is to minimize the costs of exchanging resources in the environment and the costs of managing exchanges inside the organization.
Business firm
Collection of business process
Business process
Collection of business routine
Technical definition of organization
Formal social structure with rules and procedures that processes resources from environment to produce outputs
Routines in business process
Standard operation procedure
Agency Theory
a theory that views the firm as a nexus of legal contracts
Organization Politics
divergent view-points about how resources, rewards, and punishments should be distributed
Organization environment
factors outside an organization that affect its operation and information works as a lens
organization
stable and formal social structure that takes resources from the environment and processes them to produce outputs
organizational culture
the values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by organizational members
The Features of organization
•Accountability, authority in system of impartial decision making •Adherence to principle of efficiency