Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm (16th Edition)
Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9780135191798
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3, Problem 18MLM

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Factors mediating the relationship between Information Technology and Organizations:

  • Organizations and information systems have a mutual influence over one another.
  • The business requirements of an organization need to be understood and the information systems needs to be designed accordingly.
  • At the same, the organization should accept the influence of the information system and accept the change it provides by introducing to newer technologies.
  • The decisions made in selection of information system factors in the culture, the organizational environment, culture, and the operating procedures.
  • The interaction between the two is thus complex and the variables do impact the relationship to varying degrees.

Economic factors:

  • Organizations are legal and social entities that has invested economically in its products and services.
  • Its capital and labour influence the selection of information systems as well as the society in which it stands.
  • A multinational corporation invests in a global information system that sets a uniform common requirement to integrate its various processes...

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