Organizational response and information technology

In one instance after another, organizations have remolded themselves, not in direct response to great ideas, but in response to the development of intervening technology that stimulates implementation of those ideas. 1 The remolding, however, does not immediately correspond with the advent of the new technology. An organizational response process is initiated with the advent of the new technology, and then evolves over time. The purpose of this paper is to render theoretical frameworks that are useful for understanding the organizational response process and then to apply the frameworks to add perspective to contemporary organizational developments in respect to information technology.