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Organizational use of IT and the effect of IT on organizational practices and outcomes are widely researched in the IS community. One stream of organizational IS research deals with organizational consequences of IT, such as the effect of IT investments on firm value, and the role of IT capabilities in gaining competitive advantage. The second stream deals with organizational IT use and management topics such as organizational adoption of IT, IS planning and strategic alignment, control and IT architecture, outsourcing and labor sourcing, the use of open source software, and IS security and risk management.
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By measuring these dimensions and ranking countries accordingly, Hofstede established a national culture profile for each country studied. In spite of numerous criticisms, Hofstede’s conception of national culture continues to inspire much of the cultural research in IS.
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Sidorova, A., Evangelopoulos, N., Torres, R., Johnson, V. (2013). IT and Organizations. In: A Survey of Core Research in Information Systems. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7158-5_4
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