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