Information Technology & People: Volume 15 Issue 4

Organizational options for resolving the tension between IT departments and business units in the delivery of IT services

Steven R. Gordon, Judith R. Gordon

The organization of companies’ information technology (IT) functions has been studied and described in three ways: on a centralization‐decentralization continuum, on the basis of…

Situating culture in the global information sector

Judith Y. Weisinger, Eileen M. Trauth

Presents a theoretical approach to understanding the local culture of firms in the multinational information sector. Called situating culture, this approach holds that cultural…

Collaborative practice research

Lars Mathiassen

Reports from a systems development research tradition in which emphasis is put on relating research activities to practice and on establishing fruitful collaboration between…

Computer ethics: the influence of guidelines and universal moral beliefs

Dane K. Peterson

Examines the influence of computer guidelines and the belief in universal moral rules on ethical intentions regarding the use of computers in the workplace. The results revealed…

Conversation and Technology – From the Telephone to the Internet

Jacob Thommesen

On the Internet: Thinking in Action

Arun Kumar Tripathi

Women, Work and Computing

Ruth Woodfield

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