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Article
IT Influence on Organizational Structure: Empirical Studies Among Polish Organizations
Author(s)
Katarzyna Tworek
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DOI:10.17265/1537-1506/2015.07.003
Affiliation(s)
Katarzyna Tworek, Ph.D., Eng., Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland.
ABSTRACT
The paper describes information technologies (IT) role in organization—especially its influence on organizational structure. Article concerns the importance of analyzing IT acceptance, while describing IT in organization and points out that inadequate variable choice may influence validity of IT analysis. First part of the article describes both variables analyzed in presented research—IT dissemination and IT acceptance. It also presents how in theory IT can influence organizational structure. The main part of the article describes empirical studies conducted in order to verify if the influence of IT on the organizational structure exists. First, the main goal and methodology of the empirical studies are presented. Variables used to assess IT and organizational structure in organizations are discussed. Then, there is a description of research results—statistical correlation between analyzed variables and regression models is shown. Conclusion of the article is that IT can influence organizational structure, but the most important factor ensuring this influence is the actual use of IT by employees of the organization—their access to IT is not enough.
KEYWORDS
information technology (IT), IT acceptance, IT dissemination, organizational structure
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