Impact of IT on organizations in modern conditions

Abstract

Information technology, especially the internet, exerted strong influence on organizational systems. It has enabled flexibility and the establishment of decentralized and dispersed business organizations. Conception of the organization based on the principle of ‘integrated decentralization’ is the opposite of concentrated and centralized organizations that had dominated the traditional organizations of the past. Information technology has largely contributed to the establishment of integrated decentralized organization because companies have been able to decentralize their parts in the general area, and then to integrate them at a centralized level, with the establishment of specific functions for all decentralized areas. This paper further discusses the impact of IT on the design of organizations, as well as the place and role of man in the information society.