Introducing and Discussing IS, Management, Organization and ControlInformation Systems, Management, Organization and Control

The influence of Information Systems (ISs) on organizational structures, processes, and people as well as how these organizational forms impact technology design, func-tionality and management has a rich history within the managerial literature. In particular, the relationship between IS, management and organizational control has been a regular subject of analysis in literature over the past thirty years. Organizational control is a fundamental issue in a variety of contexts, from a so-cio-political and corporate governance perspectives, as well as from a managerial point of view within organizations. In the managerial debate, the concept of control is normally used in broad, non-discriminating way to identify diverse policies, ideolo-gies and practices that have been developed to organize productive activity . Theo-ries on organizational control typically describe how managers measure and monitor the work of organizational actors by comparing their performance against established standards and providing rewards or sanctions based on these evaluations .