Technological Challenges and Management: Matching Human and Business Needs

Book Preface

Technological Challenges and Management: Matching Human and Business Needs is dedicated to technological challenges and management with special emphasis on the new advances and challenges that today’s organizations face in the areas of human resources and business, resulting from continuous and highly complex changes in technological resources.

Nowadays, organizations face many challenges, namely, in the technological field, which causes many changes related to organizational structure and strategy. As a result, organizations need to implement a more proactive and flexible management, matching their human and business needs. Due to this reality, it is important to study and understand varied contributions made by researchers, academics, and practitioners in this field of study worldwide.

With the focus on this reality, this book aims to exchange experiences and perspectives about the state of technological challenges, management research, and future directions for this field of study, taking into account the deep implications that these challenges have in the organization of human resources. It aims to support academics and researchers and those operating in the management field in dealing with different challenges that organizations face today, with special emphasis on the relationship between technological changes, human resources management, and business.

Contents
Preface………………………………………………………………………………………………….vii
Editors……………………………………………………………………………………………………ix
Contributors…………………………………………………………………………………………..xi
Chapter 1 Fashion or adoption? Harmonization of new technologies with strategy, structure, and culture.
Yasemin Sen
Chapter 2 Technological and organizational changes: Challenges for HRM
José Manuel Gameiro Rebelo dos Santos and Maria Amélia Marques
Chapter 3 The concept of e-HRM, its evolution and effects on organizational outcomes..
Mine Afacan Findikli and Yasin Rofcanin
Chapter 4 Organizational change success as a communicational agency effect: Structuration, textualizing, and networking.
Ivo Manuel Pontes Domingues
Chapter 5 Electronic human resource management in SMEs: An exploratory study in a Portuguese municipality.
Sara Carvalho and Carolina Machado
Chapter 6 Collaboration in processes supported by Web 2.0: The emergence of interactivity
Jorge da Silva Correia-Neto, Jairo Simião Dornelas, and Catarina Rosa e Silva de Albuquerque
Chapter 7 Enhancing online fashion retail: The quest for the perfect fit.
Alessandra Vecchi, Fanke Peng, Mouhannad Al-Sayegh, and Susan Hamilton