竞争情报和IS支持对改变小型企业组织机构的影响研究分析外文.docVIP

毕业论文（设计） 外文翻译 The impact of competitive intelligence and IS support in changing small business organizations The author: Tor Guimaraes is J.E. Owen Chair of Excellence at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville Tennessee, USA. Keywords: Competitive strategy, Information systems, Strategic management, Organizational change, Small firms. Abstract: The voluminous body of literature on the management of change, including sub-areas such as Business Process Reengineering (BPR)，Total Quality Management (TQM), and product improvement, implicitly or explicitly propose that company strategic intelligence is a pre-requisite for change, and that effective information systems (IS) support is a critical requirement for implementing change. While these two hypotheses arc cxcccdingly important, the existing literature contains no empirical evidence supporting them. A field test of how effectively small business organizations are identifying strategic problem and opportunities, how effectively they implement business changes，and use IS technology to do so, was undertaken to empirically test their relationships. Despite the relatively small sample size, the results provide clear evidence about the importance of competitive intelligence and IS support for effectively implementing changc in small business organizations. The items used for measuring the main constructs provide further insights into how managers should go about acquiring competitive intelligence and managing IS technology to cffcctivcly support business improvements. Electronic access The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at  HYPERLINK  Introduction: Small business organizations have been widely known as an important source of employment and economic development. Lately, however, small business organizations and entrepreneurs have been put in the endangered species list, run over by chains owned by large organizations and stymied by politicians and regulators (Kurtz, 1996; Reilan