Informational environments: Organizational contexts of online information use
dc.contributor.author | Lamb, Roberta | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | King, John Leslie | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Kling, Rob | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-20T15:03:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-20T15:03:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-01-15 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Lamb, Roberta; King, John Leslie; Kling, Rob (2003)."Informational environments: Organizational contexts of online information use." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54(2): 97-114. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/48708> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1532-2882 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1532-2890 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/48708 | |
dc.description.abstract | Before the Web, the story of online information services was largely one of over-estimates and unmet expectations. This study examines sustained use and non-use of online services within organizations in a way that overcomes limitations of the traditional approaches that repeatedly led to exuberant usage projections. By adopting an open-systems view, we see that firms in highly technical and highly institutional environments have many more incentives to gather data and go online than do firms in low-tech, unregulated industries. But firms make important choices about partnering and outsourcing that can shift informational activities across organizational boundaries. Our analysis focuses on the informational environments of firms in three industries: law, real estate and biotech/pharmaceuticals. This environmental model provides richer conceptualizations about the use of information and communication technologies, including Internet technologies, and better projections about future use. In support of our analysis, we briefly discuss insights from an ongoing intranets study informed by an informational environments perspective. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Computer Science | en_US |
dc.title | Informational environments: Organizational contexts of online information use | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | University of Hawaii, Manoa, College of Business Administration, Information Technology Management, Honolulu, HI 96822 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Indiana University, Center for Social Informatics, School of Library and Information Science, Bloomington, IN 47405 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/48708/1/10182_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/(ISSN)1532-2890 | |
dc.identifier.source | Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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