Computer assisted analysing, controlling and constructing tools for information systems design

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Preface 5
3. Contents 11
4. Authors 23
5. Introduction 29
6. The design of computer-based information systems - a challenge to organizational research 31
7. Part 1: Interrelationships between organizational structure and information system
8. The measurement of organization structure and information structure 55
9. Discontinuities of computerization - a study of French companies 65
10. Integrated information systems and their effects on organizational structure 95
11. Information processing determinants of organization structure 105
12. The change in information flows by a Management Information Centre (MIC) 117
13. The impact of computer technology on organizational power structures 131
14. The impact of new techniques for management control on the information system and organization 150
15. An organizational concept for the design of Management Information Systems 163
16. Economics and information structure in organization design 186
17. Comments on the influence of information technology on organizational structure in insurance industry 197
18. Information systems for organizations of the future 217
19. Changes in organizational design induced by the introduction of computerized information systems - a longitudinal study in the electricity industry 230
20. Man, organization and computer - a contingency analysis 246
21. Part 2: Information system development
22. The Management Information System: The initiation and adoption of an organizational innovation 271
23. Information system and organizational concept - analysis of an innovation process from the pragmatic point of view 281
24. Control structure and formalized information analysis in an organization 311
25. The FOUR-FLOWS MODEL as a tool for designing the information system of an organization 324
26. Information economics and the notion of "Management Information System" 342
27. A model for the construction of a cost-minimal communication tree 365
28. Automatic interfacing of application software in the GPLAN framework 382
29. Computer assisted analysing, controlling and constructing tools for information systems design 397
30. The use of models and associated software in the design of wicked systems 411
31. The information analysis of administrative systems based on statute law - some aspect of the Legol-project 424
32. An introduction to computer-aided documentation of user requirements for computer-based Information Processing Systems 438
33. Model management systems 467
34. Index 485