The Role of IT in the Transformation of Work: A Comparison of Post-industrial, Industrial, and Proto-industrial Organization

Information Systems Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-21

  Winter, Susan J ^a   Lynne Taylor, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Historical Analysis; Industrialization; Information Systems; New Organizational Forms; Organizational Structure; Post industrial; Putting out Systems

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE;

HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; POST-INDUSTRIAL;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0346880103     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.7.1.5     Document Type: Review

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