The Culture of An Information Economy
Subtitle: Influences and Impacts in the Republic of Ireland
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780792365556
Subjects: Business information systems; Information Economics; Social Situations And Conditions; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Development - Economic Development; Public Policy - General; Business & Economics / Economic Development; Computers / Management Information Systems; Computers : Information Technology; Political Science : Public Policy - General; Economics - General; Sociology - General; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; Information Technology; Ireland; Social conditions
First sentence: The radical changes in Ireland's economy during the last third of the twentieth century have been accompanied by a similar transformation in Ireland's society.
Description: "In this book Eileen Trauth peers inside the day-to-day working lives of the people who have been bringing about Ireland's transition from a small agricultural country to a healthy information economy. It is one of the few book-length interpretive studies in the information systems field. This book links the disciplines of information systems, international management, economic development, history and public policy to tell the story behind the statistics about Ireland's economic development. The findings from this ten-year study illustrate the range of socio-cultural factors, which influence the emergence of an information sector. Ireland's story contains a message for other nations that this change to a new way of working and living is intimately connected to the cultural context within which it occurs. This book reveals the ethnographic approach that was used by taking the reader through the interpretive process as it occurred. The Appendix is devoted to additional detail about the methodology." "This book should be read by Ph. D. students and others who want to learn more about the actual application of ethnographic methods in information systems research. It should be read by students, researchers, teachers and policy makers working in several related fields including: global information systems, the information society, management in the knowledge economy, and economic development."--Jacket.