{"title":"Post-fordist debate: a theoretical perspective to information technology and the firm","authors":"Andrew Boynton, G.Tom Milazzo","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00008-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00008-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article introduces a framework of theoretical arguments, broadly labeled “post-Fordism”, with which to conceptualize the role of information technology in the firm. Broadly speaking, the term “post-Fordism” refers to the emergence of a new set of organizational, economic, technological, and social configurations to replace those of “Fordist” mass production. The theoretical arguments surrounding “post-Fordism” rest upon the relationships among these constructs. The role of <em>information technology</em> within the post-Fordist worldview is an important one. Post-Fordist theoretical arguments are rooted in the belief that reality is historically constituted. Thus, the study of information technology in organizational settings cannot be isolated, but must embrace critical dimensions of the organization as well as of the society, industry, and nation of which it is a part. The purpose of this article is, first, to delve into the post-Fordist conceptual foundation, and second, to explore some of the emerging technologies that are consonant with the post-Fordist paradigm. While indebted to the watershed work of Piore and Sabel, following the neo-Schumpeterian analysis, we will argue, first, that technology in fact is an integral part of the structure <em>and</em> culture of a firm itself, and second, that the move from Fordist to post-Fordist economy represents more than simply a change in technology. This transformation represents a shift of major significance in technological, organizational, and cultural paradigms. In this transition from the Fordist to the post-Fordist world, technology has emerged as a paradigmatic force.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"6 3","pages":"Pages 157-173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0959-8022(96)00008-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79965681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information systems development: Reflections on a discipline","authors":"Lars Mathiassen","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00010-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00010-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"6 1","pages":"Pages 127-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0959-8022(96)00010-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80142476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating future research: Judging the relevance of information systems development research","authors":"Ole Hanseth, Eric Monteiro","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00012-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00012-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"6 1","pages":"Pages 77-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0959-8022(96)00012-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75165029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Author index to volume 6, 1996","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0959-8022(96)90018-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0959-8022(96)90018-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"6 4","pages":"Page I"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0959-8022(96)90018-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137160509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contextual influences on self-control of is professionals engaged in systems development","authors":"Laurie J. Kirsch, Larry L. Cummings","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00018-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00018-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In today's turbulent business environment, there is a move away from traditional hierarchical relations and governance within organizations, and a move toward increased reliance on self-control, where an individual sets his own goals, monitors his own work, and rewards or sanctions himself accordingly. Since the use of self control is often recommended in an environment of task complexity and ambiguity, systems development would seem to provide an excellent context in which to study it. The goal of this research is to examine contextual factors (work unit structure and knowledge technology) that influence IS project leaders' perceptions of self-control. To meet this goal, two studies were carried out: a survey of IS professionals and a series of three case studies of systems development efforts. Overall, the results suggest that IS project leaders' perceptions of self-control are highest when they have considerable job experience, when they are able to further refine existing development procedures, and when they are involved in smaller, less-complex systems development projects. Implications for the practice of systems development are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"6 3","pages":"Pages 191-219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0959-8022(96)00018-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75378870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentary on the intellectual structures of information systems development by hirschheim, klein and lyytinen","authors":"Lucas D. Introna","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00013-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00013-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"6 1","pages":"Pages 87-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0959-8022(96)00013-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90119480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A federated framework for information systems development—sense making, argumentation or control of information systems development and its research","authors":"Pentti Kerola","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00017-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00017-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The main contribution of Hirschheim, Klein and Lyytinen's well-structured and significant paper is the idea of a federated framework for information systems development and its research, based on the social action theories of Habermas and Etzioni. This comment presents the most essential reasons for reformulating the Etzioni dimension (primary domains of changes in ISD) for its adoption into the framework: the matrix of object systems classes. The most essential changes concern the human actor as the ontological subject/object in ISD and its research, and the inclusion of actors in all the categories of differential malleability in the domains of change. Comment is also directed at the metatheoretic nature of their paper and its potential embedded misunderstandings. Awareness of other researchers' frames and their incongruences is especially emphasized in order to increase common sense making in the research community.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"6 1","pages":"Pages 115-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0959-8022(96)00017-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86194058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpreting information technology sourcing decisions from a transaction cost perspective: Findings and critique","authors":"Mary C Lacity, L. Willcocks","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00005-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0959-8022(96)00005-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"203-244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73085102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silicon supervisors and stress: Merging new evidence from the field","authors":"Dennis Galletta, Rebecca Grant","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00003-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0959-8022(96)00003-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using computer software to track and evaluate employee performance (“monitoring” or “silicon supervision”) continues to be a controversial issue. One area of particular concern is the potential linnk between monitoring and workplace stress. Much of the evidence supporting the link is anecdotal. There are, however, a few empirical studies that seem to indicate a positive correlatin and which subsequently extrapolate a causal relationship from that correlation. At the same time, research results are far from conclusive: for every study demonstrating a link, one can find another that fails to demonstrate such a correlation. Evidence from two studies supported the argument that the link between stress and monitoring is weak, and that it is difficult to infer a significant causal relationship. A lab experiment failed to show increased stress in a monitored environment. A field survey with very high power established only a weak relationship between monitoring and stress. It also provided evidence that the correlation may be predictive, but not explanatory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"5 3","pages":"Pages 163-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0959-8022(96)00003-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82713828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning in context: Extensively computerized work groups as communities-of-practice","authors":"J. George, S. Iacono, R. Kling","doi":"10.1016/0959-8022(95)00012-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0959-8022(95)00012-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100011,"journal":{"name":"Accounting, Management and Information Technologies","volume":"58 1","pages":"185-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89348923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}