How societies embrace information technology : lessons for management and the rest of us / James W. Cortada.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780470643938
- 0470643935
- 9780470643884
- 0470643889
- 1282491903
- 9781282491908
- 9780470534984
- 0470534982
- Information society
- Internet -- Social aspects
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Soci�et�e de l'information
- Internet -- Aspect social
- Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social
- COMPUTERS -- Information Technology
- Information society
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Internet -- Social aspects
- 303.4833 23/eng/20231017
- HM851 .C675 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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How Societies Embrace Information Technology; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Introducing the Big Picture; 2 How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast; 3 How Governments Leverage Information Technologies to Improve Their National Economies; 4 How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use; 5 Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age?; 6 An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers; 7 Looking Down the Road into the Twenty-First Century; 8 Keeping Up: Bibliographic Essay; Index.
This book discusses how computers are shaping contemporary society, with a tight focus on the role of corporations and governments. It is aimed at government policymakers interested in economic development and at private-sector managers who routinely make decisions to acquire and use information technology, now a worldwide expenditure of over 2 trillion annually. The book will also interest a wide range of academics concerned with the sociology, history, economics, and the effects of IT on contemporary society, ands to the general trade market
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