Information systems and the diversity of globalization
By: Chrisanthi Avgerou.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Information technology -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies; Organizational change -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Theory.  The institutional nature of ICT and organizational change ; The socio-technical nature of information systems innovation ; Multiple situated rationalities ; The global, the local, and the disembedded; title: Pt. 2. Insights from case studies. Pemex- transforming a national company ; IKA- striving to modernize a state bureaucracy ; An experiment of flexible specialization in Cyprus ; Medical drug utilization information systems in the United States and Europe ; The nature and significance of global diversity for information systems.