Information for Innovation: Managing Change from an Information Perspective - Couverture souple

Macdonald, Stuart

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199241473 ISBN 13 : 9780199241477

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Information is not taken seriously. Much is said about the information age, the information economy, the information society, and particularly about information technology, but little about information itself. Information is not as other good: it has some very odd characteristics, conveniently overlooked by senior managers passionate about knowledge-based, learning organizations; by politicians and public servants, compensating with policy and programme for the information failure of organizationa and market; and by the IT and dotcom communities, bent on adding value to what they treat as just a commodity.

This book looks at innovation from an information perspective; one that puts information first. Its information perspective is applied to eighteenth-century agriculture and high technology, to technology transfer and espionage, to corporate strategy and intellectual property. The results are intriguing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stuart Macdonald is Professor of Information and Organization at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Technology and the Tyranny of Export Controls: Whisper Who Dares (Macmillan, 1990) and (with Ernest Braun) Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics (Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199241473
• ISBN 13: 9780199241477
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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