New technology is making it possible to replace professions built on complex knowledge, e.g. medicine. In our exploratory research we examined how Information Technologies might be replacing some of the tasks formerly processed by physician anesthesiologists (MDAs). Data (N=1178) were collected at a specialized hospital in the Netherlands. We observed the tasks carried out by fourteen MDAs duri...

The “through” in Bill Tomlinson’s title suggests a perspective that ascribes a fundamental role for information technology (IT) as an agency of environmental sustainability. The alternative—that IT also acts as agency of unsustainable practices—is also represented in Tomlinson’s description of the relationship between human behaviors and environmental conditions—especially climate change. Nonet...

It is possible to characterize the different stages of history according the type of technology available. The last fifty years of human history have been referred to as “The Information Age" because of the great advancements and innovations of technology in electronics, computers and communications. The first part of this work presents a method based on the generation and exploitation of a dat...

The growing use of information and communications technologies in commerce and industry is once again encouraging debate and questioning of the development of students’ skills and knowledge in this domain. Whereas in the past, the debate has centred on school education, questions about ICT literacy are now being raised in the context of post-compulsory education. Post-compulsory education sits ...

Corporate Information Technology (IT) functions are under increasing pressure to succeed in their IT outsourcing (ITO) arrangements. Studies of ITO success have in the past mainly explored its operational and financial aspects. At the same time there is a dearth of research on broader organizational antecedents and outcomes of ITO. This study examines the effect of organizational identity on ou...

The Internet, World Wide Web, and related information and communication technologies (ICTs), have rapidly spread to a large number of countries and cultures. Many of these technologies facilitate and mediate activities whose modes and means bind closely to culture. Research has suggested that communication technologies can affect values and norms for behavior. Therefore, the goal of this resear...

Prevailing research on IT governance suggests that a large and increasing majority of multi-divisional organizations utilize a federal model of organization. Contingencies that influence a choice of centralized, decentralized or federal model include the organizational structure, business unit scope and the absorptive capacity of the business unit (Sambamurthy & Zmud 1999). Given the attention ...

The Children and Technology Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is designed to address the broad question “How does children’s use of Information Technology (IT) influence their cognitive, social, psychological and moral development?” Based on an ecological systems theory perspective, IT use is conceptualized as a reciprocal proximal process that occurs over time and is embedded...

entrepreneurship is the process of value setting by providinga unique set of sources for making effective use of opportunities;thus, caring about it seems to be a must. the present paper aims toinvestigate the effect of information technology management on managers’entrepreneurship in tabriz car-parts manufacturing industry. tothis end, four hypotheses were tested in the study. the population o...

abstractthis study examined information flow on minisett technology among yam farmers in delta state, nigeria. a sample size of 180 respondents was involved in the study. data were obtained from respondents of the study through the use of a validated interview schedule. percentage, frequency count and mean scores were used to summarize data, while line diagrams were used to develop maps of info...