Organisational mission statements: a postmodernist perspective on the management of the IS/IT function

Hackney, Ray A. and Pillay, John (2002) Organisational mission statements: a postmodernist perspective on the management of the IS/IT function. Information resource managament journal, 15 (1). pp. 131-138. ISSN 1040-1628

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Abstract

The mission statement embodies certain beliefs about the management culture of the organization which can be examined and placed within underlying theoretical contexts. This paper examines postmodernism in this respect which, in addition to forming a critique of modernist approaches, posits alternative views about philosophy, organization, and subsequently IS/IT theory. The study applies an ethnographic case research methodology where data was collected from sixty interviewees employed within a multinational financial services group.