document: Organization design : The continuing influence of information technology Drawing from an information processing perspective , this paper examines how information technology -LRB- IT -RRB- has been a catalyst in the development of new forms of organizational structures . The article draws a historical linkage between the relative stability of an organization 's task environment starting after the Second World War to the present environmental instability that now characterizes many industries . Specifically , the authors suggest that advances in IT have enabled managers to adapt existing forms and create new models for organizational design that better fit requirements of an unstable environment . Time has seemingly borne out this hypothesis as the bureaucratic structure evolved to the matrix to the network and now to the emerging shadow structure . IT has gone from a support mechanism to a substitute for organizational structures in the form of the shadow structure . The article suggests that the evolving and expanding role of IT will continue for organizations that face unstable environments
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