Information technology and the changing fabric of organization

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 749-762

  Zammuto, Raymond F ^a   Griffith, Terri L ^b   Majchrzak, Ann ^c   Dougherty, Deborah J ^d   Faraj, Samer ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordances; Information systems; IS strategy; Organizational design; Organizational form; Organizational processes; Organizational structure; Technology; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349154221     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0307     Document Type: Article

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