157) Large, ________ organizations, which primarily developed before the computer age, are often inefficient, slow to change, and less competitive than newly created organizations.
158) Information systems can ________ the number of levels in an organization by providing managers with information to supervise larger numbers of workers and by giving lower-level employees more decision-making authority.
159) Postindustrial theories based more on history and sociology than economics also support the notion that IT should ________ hierarchies.
160) Information systems inevitably become bound up in organizational ________ because they influence access to a key resource–namely, information.
161) Because information systems potentially change an organization's structure, culture, business processes, and strategy, there is often considerable ________ to them when they are introduced.
162) Businesses are rapidly rebuilding some of their key business ________ based on Internet technology.
163) Firms that "do better" than others are said to have a ________ over others.
164) A profitable company depends in large measure on its ability to attract and ________ customers and charge high prices.
165) A firm can use information systems to achieve the ________ operational costs and the ________ prices.
166) Dell tries to emphasize low cost as well as the ability to ________ its personal computers.