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GIS In Organizations: How Effective Are GIS In Practice? [Paperback]

Heather Campbell (Author), I. Masser (Author)
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October 7, 1995 0748402055 978-0748402052 1
In placing these questions at the heart of their book, the authors set out to stimulate and contribute to the great debate: despite the enormous growth in the acquistion of GIS technology by business and government, little is known about the impact this leading- edge technology is having.
Using case studies in a local government context, this book explores the performance of GIS in practice on the premise that any technology-led innovation will only "work" if the proper organizational and management support, infrastructure and culture exist. In doing so the authors draw on the experiences from organizational theory and management science in their quest to cast light on the processes influencing the implementation of technologies such as GIS.

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (October 7, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0748402055
  • ISBN-13: 978-0748402052
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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An excellent research on integration of technology and organizations was done and described in this book by the author.

The authors did discuss the problematic processes for an organization to adapt a new technology. However, the features of GIS-common functions, possible programings, were not fully described. Subsequently, solutions on the integration of GIS and organizations was not developed.

On the other hand, the issue which the authors want to bring about is indeed the bottle neck of implementation of GIS. It needs more attention and research on the human aspect when we try to apply the GIS technology. Otherwise, the new technology GIS would be finally "irrelevant" instead of "invention".

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combined technical services, managerial rationalism, social interactionist perspective, shire districts, information management strategy, programmable technologies, geographic information technologies, corporate working, technical worth, social interactionism, case study organizations, information management strategies, computing specialists, achieved utilization, digital map data, smaller authorities, departmental systems, case study findings, shire counties, local government sector, spatial data sets, evidence from the case studies, user departments, rationalist perspective, corporate approach
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