Impression Management and Information Technology

Jon W. Beard

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 1996
• Print ISBN: 9780899308487
• eBook ISBN: 9780313035647
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Organisational Behaviour
• Index: Business

Information technology will be the most pervasive and important influence on individuals and organizations in the next 10 years. Impression management is a growing field of study in the management and organizational sciences, which studies the self-presentational approach of individuals and the organizations. This collection of papers is both exploratory and innovative, examining new ways for the corporation to effect its strategy, its organizational design and its development as they are stimulated by the introduction and evolution of information technology. Understanding impression management theory as it moves further into the mainstream of research and practice is critical to corporate strategists, academics, and students.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Impression Management and Information Technology: New Perspectives on Individual and Organizational Computing
• 2. A Self-Presentational Perspective of Computer-Mediated Communications
• 3. The Symbolic Value of Computers: Expanding Analyses of Organizational Computing
• 4. Managing Impressions with Information Technology: From the Glass House to the Boundaryless Organization
• 5. Using Impression Management to Establish Successful Service-Level Agreements
• 6. Managing One's Business Partners: The Selling of EDI
• 7. The Effect of Multimedia Presentations on Impression Formation
• 8. Impression Management and Computer Surveys in Organizations
• 9. The Appropriate Use of Computer-Based Information Technologies in Organizations: An Impression Management Framework
• Bibliography
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Contributors