Impacts of the Internet on organizational structures

Students studing Research in IT (NCC) need to examine the impacts of the Internet on a specific organization. Based on Harris (2002), I summarize the main impacts of the Internet on the external business environment, organizational structures and organization capabilities as follows:

Students should study this article to learn the ideas noted in the diagram above. Since the article is dated, students should also read around this topic to enrich and update the ideas noted in Harris (2002).  The ideas noted in this article are to be examined with the socio-technical systems lens in coming Research in IT sessions.


Reference
Harris, L. (2002) "Chapter 3: Organisational structures for eBusiness" in Jackson, P. and Suomi, R. (editors) eBusiness and Workplace Redesign, Routledge.