TY - JOUR
T1 - Information systems
T2 - Emergence of a new organizational function
AU - Ein-Dor, Philip
AU - Segev, Eli
PY - 1982
Y1 - 1982
N2 - Data processing units have undergone a process of rapid advancement both in function and organizational location, maturing as a separate autonomous area devoted to information systems. This paper is a study of the dynamic change in the organizational location of information units. Fifty-three organizations from a wide variety of industries in a large metropolitan area were studied. Some consistency in the location of the information systems within organizations have been identified. Concrete advice presented here may save readers one or more disrupting relocations of the information systems unit in their organizations.
AB - Data processing units have undergone a process of rapid advancement both in function and organizational location, maturing as a separate autonomous area devoted to information systems. This paper is a study of the dynamic change in the organizational location of information units. Fifty-three organizations from a wide variety of industries in a large metropolitan area were studied. Some consistency in the location of the information systems within organizations have been identified. Concrete advice presented here may save readers one or more disrupting relocations of the information systems unit in their organizations.
KW - Autonomous IS
KW - information units
KW - organizational function
KW - organizational location
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0020179351&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0378-7206(82)90008-8
DO - 10.1016/0378-7206(82)90008-8
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AN - SCOPUS:0020179351
SN - 0378-7206
VL - 5
SP - 279
EP - 286
JO - Information and Management
JF - Information and Management
IS - 4-5
ER -