Governing Through Technology [electronic resource] : Information Artefacts and Social Practice /
Kallinikos, Jannis.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Management.
Organization.
Planning.
Industrial management.
Communication.
Knowledge management.
Management.
Organization.
Innovation/Technology Management.
Media Studies.
Knowledge Management.