Governing Through Technology

Information Artefacts and Social Practice
2011. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-28088-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Technology, Work and Globalization

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances. This book describes the vital importance that digital information acquires in restructuring organizations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kallinikos, Jannis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Technology as an Object of Social Enquiry The Regulative Regime of Technology Boundaries and Freedoms: Re-opening the Black Box of Technology Deconstructing Information Packages: Efficiency versus Governance Control and Complexity in a Connected World Cognitive Foundations of Work: The Workplace as Information Information Tokens and Reality: A Parable of the Internet

Über Autor(innen)

JANNIS KALLINIKOS is professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, UK. His current research focuses on the study of technological information in all its forms (text, voice, image) and digital formats and the implications its diffusion carries for organizations and institutions.