Information Systems and Organizational Structure

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Authors -- Introduction -- The design of computer-based information systems - a challenge to organizational research -- Part 1: Interrelationships between organizational structure and information system -- The measurement of organization structure and information structure -- Discontinuities of computerization - a study of French companies -- Integrated information systems and their effects on organizational structure -- Information processing determinants of organization structure -- The change in information flows by a Management Information Centre (MIC) -- The impact of computer technology on organizational power structures -- The impact of new techniques for management control on the information system and organization -- An organizational concept for the design of Management Information Systems -- Economics and information structure in organization design -- Comments on the influence of information technology on organizational structure in insurance industry -- Information systems for organizations of the future -- Changes in organizational design induced by the introduction of computerized information systems - a longitudinal study in the electricity industry -- Man, organization and computer - a contingency analysis -- Part 2: Information system development -- The Management Information System: The initiation and adoption of an organizational innovation -- Information system and organizational concept - analysis of an innovation process from the pragmatic point of view -- Control structure and formalized information analysis in an organization -- The FOUR-FLOWS MODEL as a tool for designing the information system of an organization -- Information economics and the notion of "Management Information System" -- A model for the construction of a cost-minimal communication tree -- Automatic interfacing of application software in the GPLAN framework -- Computer assisted analysing, controlling and constructing tools for information systems design -- The use of models and associated software in the design of wicked systems -- The information analysis of administrative systems based on statute law - some aspect of the Legol-project -- An introduction to computer-aided documentation of user requirements for computer-based Information Processing Systems -- Model management systems -- Index