ABSTRACT
The chapter attempts to develop a better understanding of selected aspects of organizational culture and the strategies involved in the installation, implementation and use of computer systems. Organization culture, which is treated as a shared set of norms and values, is analyzed with respect to IT-Strategies. Organizational culture is assessed in terms of innovative, supportive and bureaucratic cultures. IT strategy is viewed as comprising six generic strategies, namely, centrally planned, leading edge, scarce resource, necessary evil, monopoly and free market. The chapter describes how we operationalized the IT strategy and organizational culture construct. Survey items related to organizational culture and IT strategy. They believe that if researchers move away from focusing on specific culture themes and aspects of IS activities in organizations and attempt to cover a fuller range of cultural and IS constructs, the link between organizational culture and IT strategies and consequences of those strategies will be better understood.
