Managing Information Technology:

What are the possible consequences of introducing a company-wide Management Information System into an organisation?

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Approaching the question

The question invites you to apply one or more theories an understanding of how Managing Information: Technology and Systems (MIS) may change life inside an adopting organisation. Labour Process Theory and Actor Network Theory stress the impact on power relations whilst other theories (technologies of representation) also consider how an MIS may offer an unrealistic or distorted picture of how organisations actually work in practice.

Topics related to this assessment include control, surveillance, electronic performance monitoring, and control at a distance.