Understanding the Role and Transformation of the Information Technology Function in Organizations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study of the role and evolution of the information technology function in organizations has prompted much interest among researchers in our field for some time now. Many researchers have tried to describe the IT function and to explain its transformation over time. However, we have observed that the existing typologies are often based on a single dimension, attached to historical periods, or built into a normative discourse that calls for an ideal archetype of the IT function. Rather than following these views, we propose that there exist many archetypes of IT functions, and that each one of them evolves in response to a limited number of parameters. First, based on a literature review, we propose a typology of the roles of the IT functions within archetypes that are defined according to four fundamental dimensions. Second, we apply this typology in an examination of the process by which IT functions are transformed over time, helped in this by the punctuated equilibrium theory. The ultimate objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual and theoretical perspective on the role played by IT functions in organizations and on how such functions may evolve or transform over time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".