Information Warfare in Business: Strategies of Control and Resistance in the Network Society

ISBN-13: 9780415439909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 216 str.

Iain Munro

Opis

Information Warfare in Business provides a significant and interesting perspective on the concept of the network organization. It illustrates the relations between information technology and organization, and in particular, between business organizations and the recent revolution in military affairs that has been called 'information warfare'. The main themes discussed include the network society, knowledge management, nomadic strategy, information warfare, power and identity.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Information warfare in business; Part 1 Creative organizational forms; Chapter 2 Strategies for the Information Age; Chapter 3 Mapping knowledge; Part 2 The weapon of information; Chapter 4 Organization, society and information warfare; Chapter 5 The virus metaphor; Part 3 Changing power relations; Chapter 6 Power relations in the Information Age; Chapter 7 Real-time; Chapter 8 Conclusions, connections, lines of flight;

O autorze

Iain Munro is lecturer at the department of management at the University of St Andrews. He has published research in the fieldsof organisation studies, operation research and business ethics.