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The New Role of Information Technology

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IT has defined for nearly 70 years how businesses should operate in an economy that is increasingly based on providing services (the third sector) rather than on the agricultural or manufacturing sectors.1 In earlier chapters, we have already seen how various forms of IT and their application have had a major, worldwide impact on organizations’ structures, their HR, their strategies, and even their very business models.

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Seebacher, U.G. (2002). The New Role of Information Technology. In: Cyber Commerce Reframing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24720-3_7

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