:::

詳目顯示

回上一頁
題名:資訊科技與組織持續競爭優勢之分析-採用複雜理論
作者:陳仁偉 引用關係
作者(外文):Jen-Wel Chen
校院名稱:國立臺灣大學
系所名稱:資訊管理學研究所
指導教授:謝清佳
學位類別:博士
出版日期:2014
主題關鍵詞:資訊科技持續競爭優勢複雜理論耗散結構浮現詮釋性個案研究長期性研究Information technologysustainable competitive advantagecomplexity theorydissipative structure theoryemergencehermeneutic case studylongitudinal research
原始連結:連回原系統網址new window
相關次數:
  • 被引用次數被引用次數:期刊(0) 博士論文(0) 專書(0) 專書論文(0)
  • 排除自我引用排除自我引用:0
  • 共同引用共同引用:0
  • 點閱點閱:6
資訊科技引發組織持續競爭優勢的現象,九十年以後一直是學者所關心的研究議題;另一方面企業更是關注於如何用資訊科技來打造持續競爭優勢。本論文的個案組織正是利用資訊科技創造持續競爭優勢的典範機構。本論文嘗試超越過去偏重於成功因素的分析研究,採用詮釋性研究方法,將個案組織長達15年的歷程視為一個處於渾沌狀態的開放系統,使用複雜理論耗散結構的四個機制詮釋個案組織用資訊科技引發持續競爭優勢的整個動態歷程分析:依據複雜理論耗散結構,個案組織是經由外在環境變化,引發內部的「擾動漲縮」,並採用資訊科技因應環境變化,再次不斷引發擾動漲縮,而這些漲縮經由「正向回饋循環」不斷增強擾動的幅度,而終至突破組織慣性,產生全新的局面,亦即所謂的新秩序或新的競爭優勢。為維持新的局面,依耗散結構會有「制衡機制」與「重組機制」與「正向回饋循環」共同運作,以維持新秩序的穩定。
本研究詮釋的結果發現個案組織在15年之中,有四波擾動漲縮,突破組織慣性產生組織持續競爭優勢,分別是(1)數位學習、(2)以資訊科技打造終身教育第一品牌、(3)快速回應與(4)終身教育拓展BOT/OT的持續競爭優勢。浮現四個正向回饋循環,分別是(1)財務政策與資訊科技投資的正向回饋循環、(2)虛-實正向回饋循環、(3)利害關係團體與資訊科技建置之正向回饋循環與(4)終身教育人口與資訊科技建置的正向回饋循環,這些正向回饋循環,不斷增強,終至促成這些演變。在此四個正向回饋循環,個案組織呈現五個制衡機制:(1)任命資訊長為執行長、(2)營利至上、(3)山頭式管理風格、(4)法令規範與(5)資訊科技本身,讓系統避免過度發展而致崩潰。透過(1)資訊科技成果內化來重組,讓資訊科技融入組織運作中,並(2)透過資訊科技成果外展來重組,讓資訊科技運作模式成為組織的新利基的兩個重組機制,塑造個案組織的持續競爭優勢與因應新的外在力量所形成的擾動漲縮,維持個案組織的持續競爭優勢。耗散結構四個機制圓滿地呈現個案組織如何以資訊科技引發持續競爭優勢。表現出複雜理論耗散結構四個機制的價值。
Abstract
Information technology increases sustainable competitive advantage has been a popular research topic after 1990; moreover, companies are getting focused on this topic as well. In our case study we pick an organization as a benchmark baseline to analyse how organization can create sustainable competitive advantage by utilizing Information technology. Instead of emphasis on the analysis of success factors, this paper attempts to use of hermeneutic case study approach. Researcher uses four dynamics of emergence posited by complexity theory’s dissipative structures model—fluctuation, positive feedback loop, stabilization, and recombination—to interpret how Information technology has created sustainable competitive advantage in case study. In the case study, the target organization has been periodically transformed itself over 15-years. Based on dissipative structures model, the target organization was changed by the external environment, fluctuation was trigged internally and the information technology was used to for the environmental changes. It made fluctuation happened again and again. The margin of fluctuation was extended via the "positive feedback loop". The inertia of the organization was stopped broken at the end and transformed the existing order into a new order with competitive advantage. According to the dissipative structure model, “Stabilization Dynamics”, “Recombination Dynamics” and “Positive Feedback loop Dynamics” will work together to keep stability of the new order.
The results of this study: Researcher founds there are four sets of fluctuations establish new orders to stop the inertia of organization and then make organizations with sustainable competitive advantage in the past 15 years. The four sets of orders through fluctuation are (1) digital learning, (2) information technology to create the first brand of lifelong education, (3) quick response and (4) expansion of lifelong education BOT / OT sustained competitive advantage. Each new order gained momentum through numerous positive feedback loops, four of them are (1) the positive feedback loop between the financial policies and investment in information technology, (2) the positive feedback loop between visionary and real, (3) the positive feedback loop between stakeholder groups and information technology, (4) the positive feedback loop between the population of lifelong education and information technology. The positive feedback loop grows and finally contributes to the evolution of sustainable competitive advantage. Beside positive feedback loops, there are 5 Check and Balance Mechanism: (1) CEO assigns the position of Chief Information Officer, (2) “show me the money”, (3) factionism, (4) laws and regulations and (5) information technology itself provided stability throughout that evolution of sustainable competitive advantage. Through two recombination dynamics, (1) organizations were transformed by means of the Information Technology Internalization, it made the information technology integrated into the operation of the organization and (2) organizations were transformed by outcomes outreach of information technology, it made operational patters of information technology into new niches, reconstituted organization to generate sustainable competitive advantage and resisted small external forces fluctuation to maintain status of sustainable competitive advantage. Complexity theory’s dissipative structures model satisfactorily interpret how Information technology initiated sustainable competitive advantage in target organization. The study demonstrates the value of four dynamics of dissipative structures model.
畢恆達 (1996). "詮釋學與質性研究." 質性研究: 理論, 方法及本土女性研究實例》, 頁: 27-46.

陳宇芬 (2002). 資訊人員的系統開發與組織結構互動之探索性研究--以結構行動理論為基礎. 國立台灣大學資訊管理研究所. 台北, 國立台灣大學. 博士論文.new window

黃欣榮 (2007). 複雜性科學與哲學, 中央編譯出版社.

鄔文萍 (2000). 我國大學推廣教育發展之探討. 碩士論文. 東吳大學. 2000

顏澤賢 (1993). 現代系統理論, 遠流出版公司, 台北.


Alderson, W. (1965). Dynamic marketing behavior: A functionalist theory of marketing. RD Irwin.

Anderson, P. (1999). Perspective: Complexity theory and organization science. Organization science 10(3): 216-232.

Arthur, W. B. (1988) Self-reinforcing mechanisms in economics. In P. Anderson et al. (Eds.), The economy as an evolving complex system. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Arthur, W. B. (1994). Increasing returns and path dependence in the economy, University of Michigan Press.

Barney, J. (1991). Firm resources and sustained competitive advantage. Journal of management 17(1): 99-120.new window

Barney, J. B. (1986). Organizational culture: can it be a source of sustained competitive advantage? Academy of management review: 656-665.

Barney, J. B. (1986). Types of competition and the theory of strategy: Toward an integrative framework. Academy of management review: 791-800.

Bechtold, B. L. (1997). Chaos theory as a model for strategy development. Empowerment in Organizations 5(4): 193-201.

Boland, R. J. (1991). Information system use as a hermeneutic process, North-Holland, Amsterdam: 439-464.

Brynjolfsson, E. and L. Hitt. (1996). Paradox Lost? Firm-level Evidence on the Returns to Information Systems Spending. Management Science 42:4, pp. 541–58.

Carayannis, E. G. and J. Alexander (2002). Is technological learning a firm core competence, when, how and why? A longitudinal, multi-industry study of firm technological learning and market performance. Technovation 22(10): 625-643.

Callon, M. (1986). Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay. Power, action and belief: A new sociology of knowledge, 32: 196–233.

Callon, M., &; Latour, B. (1981). Unscrewing the big Leviathan: how actors macro-structure reality and how sociologists help them to do so. Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Toward an integration of micro and macro-sociologies, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 277-303.

Carr, N. G. (2003). IT doesn''t matter. Educause Review 38: 24-38.

Chiles, T. H., A. D. Meyer, et al. (2004). Organizational emergence: The origin and transformation of Branson, Missouri''s musical theaters. Organization science 15(5): 499-519.

Clemons, E. K. and M. C. Row (1991). Sustaining IT advantage: The role of structural differences. MIS Quarterly: 275-292.

Coyne, K. P. (1986). Sustainable competitive advantage--What it is, what it isn''t. Business horizons 29(1): 54-61.new window

Creswell, J. W. (1998). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches, SAGE Publications, Incorporated.

Daft, R. L., &; Lewin, A. Y. (1993). Where are the theories for the "new" organizational forms? An editorial essay. Organization Science, i-vi.

David, P. (1985). Clio and the economics of QWERTY. Economic History, 75, 227-332.

Day, G. S. and R. Wensley (1988). Assessing advantage: a framework for diagnosing competitive superiority. The Journal of Marketing: 1-20.

De Carolis, D. M. (2003). Competencies and imitability in the pharmaceutical industry: An analysis of their relationship with firm performance. Journal of management 29(1): 27-50.new window

Dierickx, I. and K. Cool (1989). Asset stock accumulation and sustainability of competitive advantage. Management science 35(12): 1504-1511.

Dosi, G., Teece, D. J., &; Winter, S. (1992). Toward a theory of corporate coherence: preliminary remarks. Technology and enterprise in a historical perspective, 185-211.

Eisenhardt, K. M. (2002). OMT Distinguished Scholar Address. 62nd Annual Meeting Acad. Management. Denver.

Feeny, D. F. and B. Ives (1990). In search of sustainability: Reaping long-term advantage from investments in information technology. Journal of Management Information Systems: 27-46.

Fetterman, D. M. (1982). Ethnography in educational research: The dynamics of diffusion. Educational Researcher: 17-29.

Floyd, S. W. and B. Wooldridge (1990). Path analysis of the relationship between competitive strategy, information technology, and financial performance. Journal of Management Information Systems: 47-64.

Gallon, M. R., Stillman, H. M., &; Coates, D. (1995). Putting core competency thinking into practice. Research Technology Management, 38(3), 20-28.

Gemmill, G. and C. Smith (1985). A dissipative structure model of organization transformation. Human Relations 38(8): 751-766.

Gleick, P. H. (1987). The development and testing of a water balance model for climate impact assessment: modeling the Sacramento basin. Water Resources Research 23(6): 1049-1061.

Goodwin, B. C. (1994). How the leopard changed its spots: The evolution of complexity. Princeton University Press.

Griffin, D., P. Shaw, et al. (2000). Complexity and Management: Fad or Radical challenge to systems thinking, London: Routledge.

Haigh, C. (2002). Using chaos theory: the implications for nursing. Journal of advanced nursing 37(5): 462-469.

Hall, W. K. (1980). Survival strategies in a hostile environment, Harvard Business Review.

Hartley, J. (2004). Case study research. Essential guide to qualitative methods in organizational research: 323-333.

Henderson, B. D. (1983). The anatomy of competition. The Journal of Marketing: 7-11.

Hitt, L. M. and E. Brynjolfsson (1996). Productivity, Business Profitability, and Consumer Surplus: Three Different Measures of. MIS Quarterly 20(2): 121-143.

Hofer, C., &; Schendel, D. (1978). Strategy Formulation: Analytical Concepts, West Series in Business Policy and Planning. St. Paul.

Jantsch, E. (1980). The self-organizing universe: Scientific and human implications of the emerging paradigm of evolution.

Jorgensen, D. L. (1989). Participant observation: A methodology for human studies, Sage Publications, Incorporated.

Kauffman, S. A. (1993). The origins of order: Self-organization and selection in evolution, Oxford University Press, USA.

Klein, H. K. and M. D. Myers (1999). A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems. MIS Quarterly: 67-93.

Leifer, R. (1989). Understanding organizational transformation using a dissipative structure model. Human Relations 42(10): 899-916.

Lichtenstein, B. M. (1995, August). EVOLUTION OR TRANSFORMATION: A CRITIQUE AND ALTERNATIVE TO PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 1995, No. 1, pp. 291-295). Academy of Management.new window

Lindsey, D., Cheney, P. H., Kasper, G. M., &; Ives, B. (1990). TELCOT: an application of information technology for competitive advantage in the cotton industry. MIS Quarterly, 347-357.

Lippman, S. A. and R. P. Rumelt (1982). Uncertain imitability: An analysis of interfirm differences in efficiency under competition. The Bell Journal of Economics: 418-438.

Lissack, M. R. (1999). Complexity: the science, its vocabulary, and its relation to organizations. Emergence 1(1): 110-126.new window

Lockett, A. and C. Holland (1991). Competitive advantage using information technology in retailing: myth or reality? International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research 1(3): 261-283.new window

Lorenz, E. (1972). Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC.

Lorenz, E. (1993). The essence of chaos, London: UCL press.

Markides, C. C. and P. J. Williamson (1994). Related diversification, core competences and corporate performance. Strategic management journal 15(S2): 149-165.

Markus, M. L. and R. I. Benjamin (1997). The magic bullet theory in IT-enabled transformation. Sloan management review 38: 55-68.

Mason, R. O., J. L. McKenney, et al. (1997). An historical method for MIS research: Steps and assumptions. Management Information Systems Quarterly 21: 307-320.

Mata, F. J., W. L. Fuerst, et al. (1995). Information technology and sustained competitive advantage: A resource-based analysis. MIS Quarterly: 487-505.

McKelvey, B. (1999). Complexity theory in organization science: Seizing the promise or becoming a fad? Emergence 1(1): 5-32.new window

Miyazaki, K. (1999). Building technology competencies in Japanese firms. Research-Technology Management 42(5): 39-45.

Mahoney, James W. 2001. Path-Dependent Explanations of Regime
Change: Central America in Comparative Perspective.Comparative
International Development 36, 1: 111-141.new window

Myers, M. D. (2004). Chapter 4 Hermeneutics in IS Research. Social Theory and Philosophy for IS. J. a. W. Mingers, L. London, John Wiley &; Sons Ltd: 103-128.

Orlikowski, W. J. (2000). Using technology and constituting structures: A practice lens for studying technology in organizations. Organization Science. 11(4):404-428.

Orlikowski, W. J., &; Baroudi, J. J. (1991). Studying information technology in organizations: Research approaches and assumptions. Information systems research, 2(1), 1-28.new window

Orlikowski, W. J., &; Gash, D. C. (1994). Technological frames: making sense of information technology in organizations. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 12(2), 174-207.

Orlikowski, W. J., Yates, J., Okamura, K., &; Fujimoto, M. (1995). Shaping electronic communication: the metastructuring of technology in the context of use. Organization science, 6(4), 423-444.

Penrose, E. T. (1959). The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. London, Basil Blackwl.

Piccoli, G. &; Ives, B. (2005). Review: IT-dependent strategic initiatives and sustained competitive advantage: A review and synthesis of the literature. MIS Quarterly 29(4): 747-776.

Prahalad, C. K. &; Hamel, G. (1990). The core competence of the corporation. Boston (MA), 235-256.

Prahalad, C. K. &; Hamel, G. (1994). Competing for the Future. Harvard Business Review 72(4): 122-128.

Prahalad, C. K. &; Hamel, G. (2006). The core competence of the corporation. Strategische Unternehmungsplanung—Strategische Unternehmungsf&;#252;hrung: 275-292.

Prasad, B. &; Harker, P. T. (1997). Examining the contribution of information technology toward productivity and profitability in US retail banking. The Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Papers 97(9).

Prigogine, I. (1997). The end of certainty, Free Press.

Prigogine, I., I. Stengers, et al. (1984). Order out of chaos. Order out of chaos. I. Prigogine, I. Stengers, with a foreword by A. Toffler. Bantam Books, Toronto-New York-London-Sydney. 349 pp.

Progogine, I. &; Stengers, I. (1984). Order out of chaos: Man’s new dialogue with nature. London: Fontana.

Ross, J. W., Beath, C. M., &; Goodhue, D. L. (1996). Develop long-term competitiveness through IT assets. Sloan management review, 38(1), 31-42.new window

Ruelle, D., &; Takens, F. (1971). On the nature of turbulence. Communications in mathematical physics, 20(3), 167-192.

Rumelt, R. P. (1984). Towards a Strategic Theory of the Firm. Competitive Strategic Management. R. B. Lamb. New York, Prentice-Hall Inc, 556-570.

Rumelt, R. P. (1994). Foreword to competence-based competition. Competence Based Competition, 14-19

Sambamurthy, V., &; Zmud, R. W. (1992). Managing IT for success: The empowering business partnership. Financial Executives Research Foundation.

Sethi, V., &; King, W. R. (1994). Development of measures to assess the extent to which an information technology application provides competitive advantage. Management science, 40(12), 1601-1627.

Smith, C. (1986). Transformation and regeneration in social systems: A dissipative structure perspective. Systems Research, 3(4), 203-213.

Stacey, R. D., Griffin, D., &; Shaw, P. (2000). Complexity and management: fad or radical challenge to systems thinking? , Psychology Press.

Stake, R. E. (1995). The art of case study research, Sage Publications, Incorporated.

Styhre, A. (2002). Non-linear change in organizations: organization change management informed by complexity theory. Leadership &; Organization Development Journal, 23(6), 343-351.

SubbaNarasimha, P. N., Ahmad, S., &; Mallya, S. N. (2003). Technological knowledge and firm performance of pharmaceutical firms. Journal of Intellectual Capital, 4(1), 20-33.new window

Teece, D. J., Pisano, G., &; Shuen, A. (1997). Dynamic capabilities and strategic management, Strategic Management Journal 18(7): 509-533.

Teece, D. J., Rumelt, R., Dosi, G., &; Winter, S. (1994). Understanding corporate coherence: Theory and evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior &; Organization, 23(1), 1-30.new window

Tetenbaum, T. J. (1998). Shifting paradigms: From Newton to Chaos. Organizational dynamics, 26(4), 21-32.

Tsoukas, H., &; Chia, R. (2002). On organizational becoming: Rethinking organizational change. Organization Science, 13(5), 567-582.

Venkatraman, N. (1994). IT-enabled business transformation: from automation to business scope redefinition. Sloan management review, 35, 73-73.

Walsh, S. and J. D. Linton (2002). The measurement of technical competencies. The Journal of High technology management research 13(1): 63-86.new window

Walsham, G. and T. Waema (1994). Information systems strategy and implementation: a case study of a building society. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 12(2): 150-173.

Warner, C. (2009). The essence of chaos. Weather 64(4): 110-110.

Warnke, G. (1987). Gadamer: Hermeneutics, tradition, and reason, Stanford University Press.

WEEKS, J. R. (2000). Information Technology in a Culture of Complaint. Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: History, Rhetoric and Preface: 155.

Wernerfelt, B. (1984). A resource&;#8208;based view of the firm. Strategic management journal 5(2): 171-180.

Wheatley, M. (2011). Leadership and the new science: Discovering order in a chaotic world. ReadHowYouWant.com.


 
 
 
 
第一頁 上一頁 下一頁 最後一頁 top
QR Code
QRCODE