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The Routledge Companion to Accounting Information Systems
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The Routledge Companion to Accounting Information Systems

by Erik Strauss, Martin Quinn
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
14h 1m
English
Routledge
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New developments in information technology

A call for action

Joan Ballantine and Robert D. Galliers

Introduction

Much has been claimed about the strategic promise of new information technologies over the years. Back in the 1980s, McFarlan (1984) argued that, “Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete”, while Porter and Millar (1985) provided guidance as to “How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage”. In the following decade, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) was all the rage with, for example, Davenport and Short (1990) promoting “The New Industrial Engineering” and Hammer (1990) calling for the “obliteration” of existing business processes, rather than mere “automation”, in order to get order of magnitude improvements in ...

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