Introduction (to Special Section on GDSS)
Izak Benbasat, Benn R. Konsynski · MIS Quarterly · 1988
Organizations are undergoing radical changes in both their use of technology and their basic practices. We can expect that these changes will accelerate as the pressures continue to grow. Managers are faced with radical restructuring initiatives to support the downsizing, downscaling, and delayering of objectives. The growth of interfunctional teams and often cross-organizational teams is leading to further initiatives in the establishment of and cooperative clusters of both short and long term duration. Integration within and across the organizational boundaries i further stimulating interest in leveraging information technologies to enable and support work of groups and teams. Whether these are teams with a specific mission, standing committees that have a regular or recurring work schedule, or specially assembled groups that will have little cooperation beyond the current task at hand, each has different interests in applying information technologies to support these meetings and other group work.