Organizational forms based on information & communication technologies (ICTs) adoption

Abstract

Based on previous research that classified the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into five categories, this article examines empirically the new organisational forms which are coming from the use of every different ICT. Specifically, this paper presents the organizational categorization of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in accordance with the type of ICTs that have been adopted (ICT-Organizational forms). The results suggest that there is a statistically significant relationship of the investments in ICT with the new ICT-organizational forms and strategy for the adoption of ICTs. The empirical analysis is based on a joint methodology of fully structured questionnaires and personal interviews in 54 Greek SMEs.