The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological ChangeEdward Elgar Publishing, 01/01/2007 - 216 من الصفحات Jannis Kallinikos analyzes the recent spectacular growth of information and the self-propelling processes through which technological information is increasingly generated out of the reshuffling and recombination of available and interoperable information |
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Technological Design and Social Systems | 21 |
Information Growth as a SelfReferential Process | 48 |
Excursus on Meaning Purpose and Information | 76 |
Networks Revisited | 86 |
Addendum on Networks and Institutions | 111 |
The Organizational Order of Modernity | 125 |
Epilogue on Technology and Institutions | 154 |
Indicators and Patterns of Information Growth | 164 |
References | 179 |
Name Index | 199 |
Subject Index | 203 |
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Actor-Network Theory administrative analysed associated Borgmann bounded and hierarchical bureaucracy bureaucratic form Castells character Ciborra cognitive communication technologies complex computational computer-based systems computer-based technologies constitution construction contemporary context contingent cracy crucial data mining deep web degree DeSanctis developments diffusion DiMaggio Dionysios Demetis disaggregation distinctive domain economic emerge employment contract example formal organizations functional simplification genetic biology global human industrial information and communication information growth dynamics information processes informatization infospace infrastructures instrumental interaction interoperable involvement of individuals issues Kallinikos 1996 labour Luhmann markets mation means ments modern modes networks nizational nological non-inclusive involvement orga organizational arrangements organizational form organizational operations outcome patterns practices preceding chapter principles procedures produced reality regulation relations relationship rendition role Sassen significance simplification and closure social agents standardization strategies structural suggest surface web tech techno technological information Terabytes tion tional trends University Press variety Zuboff
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الصفحة 63 - Perceiving, however, that none of us could learn any one of them alone by itself without learning them all, and considering that this was a common bond which made them in a way all one, he assigned to them all a single science and called it grammar.
الصفحة 49 - The report defines 5 exabytes of information as being equivalent in size to the quantity of information contained in 'half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections'; if digitised.
الصفحة 186 - Braa, K (2001). The control devolution: ERP and the side effects of globalization. The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems.
الصفحة 92 - ... cumbersome hierarchical mediation (Sproull and Kiesler 1991; Wellman et al. 1996). In yet another way, distributed work provides the basis for project-based temporary work arrangements that limit the efficacy of standard, location-bound and hierarchical control structures (Castells 1996, 2000, 2001; Malone 2004; Sproull and Kiesler 1991). Again and despite the...
الصفحة 93 - Informatization that rides on software and hardware standardization increases the interoperability of the informatized functions and tasks and, provided that these are adequately modularized and packaged, also raises their transferability across contexts. As the case of finance makes clear, modularization and mobility are crucial preconditions for the tradability or exchangeability of many services and operations, often on a global scale (Sassen 2001).
الصفحة vii - The ecology of things used to enforce an economy of signs. The technology of information, however, has loosed a profusion of signs, and there is by now a rising sense of alarm about the flood of information that, instead of irrigating the culture, threatens to ravage it.
الصفحة 91 - Any primacy which location has historically acquired as the blueprint for carrying out work, partly derives from the rich communicative context of face-toface interaction and the inescapable situatedness of traditional forms of oral communication (Zuboff 1988). Yet site organization of work has also been closely associated with the wider mechanisms of surveillance and control that spatio-temporal inclusion makes possible (Deleuze 1995...
الصفحة 119 - For as far as profit appropriation is associated with the corporate form (Kraakman 2001), and work is predominantly carried out in institutional settings regulated by employment contracts (no matter how flexible or time limited) it is difficult to think of networks as an alternative to formal organization.