This is a volume of previously unpublished research studies conducted during the Management in the 1990s project at the Sloan School. It is a companion volume to the principal book of the project, The Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation (OUP, 1991). This book is organized into three sections: the IT Revolution; Strategic Options; and The Organization and Management Response. Authors of the studies are among the most prominent of the Sloan School people, including Eric Von Hippel, Edgar Schein, Michael Piore, Paul Osterman, and Thomas Kochan. There are introductions to the volume and to the sections.

This book explores the influence of Information Technology (IT) on the way that organizations will be able to survive and prosper in the competitive environment of the 1990s and beyond. Each chapter, written by an expert, deals with a different aspect of the subject. The book is written in non-technical language and includes little research methodology, and so well be accessible to business people as well as to academics. The book is the result of an extensive research programme at Massechusetts Institute of Technology, which was sponsored by firms.