Pressures or Weapons?: Applying Information Technologies to Innovate Organizational Structures in the Information Age

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Author(s): Liang-Hung Lin (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 12
Source title: Social Development and High Technology Industries: Strategies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ahmet Cakir (Institute of Ergonomics, Germany)and Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-192-4.ch010

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Innovating organizational structures by using information technologies (IT), this study introduced new IT-enabled structures, and presented how managers scan firms capabilities and design suitable structures in the information age. Another purpose of this chapter is to verify the role of IT-enabled structures in the multilevel study of innovation management. Findings based on hierarchical regression analyses revealed that IT-enabled structures are critical in the management of innovation. Furthermore, IT-enabled structures can explain the difference of both organizational innovation and individual creativity in organizations. It also can moderate the relationship between organizational innovation and individual creativity.

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