Information Technology and Organizational Effectiveness: Re-evaluation of the Radical Transformations 1980-2010

• Authors: Markku Sääksjärvi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The idea of this paper is to review and summarize the complex interplay between information technology (IT) and organization in stages that impacted radically both the organizational structure and the evolution of effectiveness and economic performance. We could identify five major stages where the underlying technology, the typical organizational structure, and the criteria of performance or business success changed, increasing the complexity of evaluation models proposed. It seemed that the effectiveness impacts of IT escalated from the individual to the team level, from the organizational to the virtual ecosystem level, and from the corporate to the national or global level. Therefore, the IT productivity paradox could not be refuted until 2003.

Keywords

EN

organizational effectiveness; information technology; transformations; productivity paradox

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 233-237

Dates

published

2010-11-01

online

2010-12-14

Contributors

author

Markku Sääksjärvi

• Helsinki School of Economics, Aalto University, Finland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-010-0023-0