Information Technology and Organizations
Strategies, Networks, and Integration
Edited by Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, David Knights, and Dale Littler
Table of Contents
1: Introduction: The Problematic of IT and Organization (Brian P. Bloomfield, Rod Coombs, David Knights, and Dale Littler
Part I: Strategies and Markets
2: 'We Should be Total Slaves to the Business': Aligning IT and Strategy - Issues and Evidence, David Knights, Faith Noble, and Hugh Willmott
3: Markets, Managers, and Messages: Managing Information Systems in Financial Services, David Knights and Fergus Murray
4: Paradigm Thinking and Strategy Development: Marketing Strategy in IT Sectors, Dominic Wilson, Dale Littler, and Margaret Bruce
Part II: Integrating Technology and Organization
5: Paper Traces: Inscribing Organizations and IT, Brian P. Bloomfield and Theo Vurdubakis
6: Doctors as Managers: Constructing Systems and Users in the NHS, Brian P. Bloomfield and Rod Coombs
Part III: Networks
7: Networking as Knowledge Work: A Study of Strategic Interorganizational Development in the Financial Service Industry, David Knights, Fergus Murray, and Hugh Willmott
8: Putting IT in its Place: Towards Flexible Integration in the Network Age?, Fergus Murray and Hugh Willmott