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In order to survive in the keen competition nowadays, Taiwan’s
manufacturingindustry must strive for the edge of competitive
advantage. The application of information technology is one of
the effective ways to accelerate theindustrial upgrade and
competitive capacity. The focus of this study is todiscuss the
relation of environmental/organizational factors with the use
ofinformation technology in Taiwan’s manufacturing industry.The
information technology is consisted of management information
system(MIS)application, automation technique, and network
application. The organizationalfactors in this study include
organizational structure/size, characteristics ofMIS department,
top manager support, organizational strategy as well as the
typeof production process. Results of a mail survey study
indicated that1. The degree of the IT usage in the industry has
significant impact on the organizational competing and
adoption of automation techniques.2. The organization horizontal
complexity positively correlated with the MIS applications.
Formalization and centralization are positively correlated with
the automation technique and the network application.3. Size of
organization positively correlated with the use of information
technology.4. The MIS budget and MIS department position in the
organization positively correlated with the use of information
technology.5. The more often the manager uses the computer, the
more the management systems are computerized. The attitude of
manager toward IT also positively correlated with the use of
network technology.6. Organizational strategies positively
correlated with the use of network technology.7. The type of
production has no impact on the use of IT.Thus the study
suggests that while the enterprises import the new
informationtechnology, they have to consider many different
factors by many different typesof information technology. By the
way, they shall emphasize on the integration ofeach information
technology type, and keep aware to the application of the
network.
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