The role of Electronic Commerce in Business Management

with the formation of Post-Industrial Revolution that is famous to Third wave and has begun from 50 years ago, there is no place for second wave or Industrial revolution. In fact Industrial revolution has been changed to post-industrial revolution. Third wave has basic changes that are different from first and second wave (Agriculture and Industrial revolution). This changes makes organization structures change too and benefit from flexible structures instead of using traditional and bureaucratic structures. Here we can introduce third wave flexible organization or learning organization.Naturally, to face with these changes, organization should change its structure and also all of these changes make organization to change traditional and bureaucratic structures to flexible structure. But IT and ICT are other factors that encourage us to have more flexible structure. In fact, because nowadays is the age of information and communication, one of the most important concept is Cybernetic.

کلیدواژه ها:

Third wave ، Post-industrial Revolution ، flexible organization ، Learning Organization ، IT ، ICT ، Cybernetic