Information View of Organizations: Contextualizing Technology-Technologizing Context

This article argues that the relationship between information systems theory and organization theory may be reinforced by introducing an information view of organizations. Although voluminous bodies of literature developed within each field and links among them are extant, their mutual informing is still insufficient. An information view of organizations could help in conveying results of information systems scholars to organizational scholars, while broadening contextual and theoretical horizons of the information systems field.

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