The impact of the internet on organisational culture within the IT industry

  • Authors:

  • Pamela Cooke;Jan H. Kroeze

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria;Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria

  • Venue:
  • SAICSIT '04 Proceedings of the 2004 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A number of factors contribute to the formation of an organisation's culture, e.g. the organisation's size, location, nature of work, etc. The organisation's culture is also subject to change due to various factors, e.g. maturity, state of the economy, technological and other innovations. This paper discusses the impact that one such technological innovation, namely the internet, had on organisational culture within the IT industry in South Africa. It aims to contribute to research on the impact of internet technologies on human factors, in other words, a deterministic impact on a nondeterministic world.