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ghost! · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Halcyon, an e-publisher, has recently decided to use an information system that administers the way its customers access its online publications.

The system assigns each customer with a unique ID, maintains records of the books purchased by them, encrypts electronic documents for transmission, and includes options to order hard copies of the electronic documents they read online. Which of the following refers to the set of technologies used in this case?A) online identity management
B) digital rights management
C) Internet resource management
D) inventory management

Question 2

How does the technical view of organizations fall short of understanding the full impacts of information systems in a firm?

A) It sees information systems as a way to rearrange the inputs and outputs of the organization.
B) It sees capital and labor as primary production factors.
C) It sees an organization as a collection of rights, privileges, obligations, and responsibilities.
D) It sees the organization as a social structure similar to a machine.
E) It sees the inputs and outputs, labor and capital, as being infinitely malleable.