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Transforming Enterprise

Name: Transforming Enterprise
Author: William H. Dutton
ISBN: 9780262042215

by William H. Dutton (Editor), Brian Kahin (Editor), Ramon O'Callaghan (Editor), Andrew W. Wyckoff

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Overview

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and social activity. Even after the boom-and despite the bust-the process of structural change continues across organizational boundaries. Transforming Enterprise considers the implications of this change from a balanced, post-bust perspective. Original essays examine the impact on the economy as a whole and, in particular, the effect on productivity; the role of information technology in creating and using knowledge-especially knowledge that leads to innovation; and new organizational models, as seen in the interlocking and overlapping networks made possible by the Internet. The authors also analyze structural changes in specific sectors, including the effect of information technology on the automotive industry, demand-driven production and flexible value chains in the personal computer industry, and new models of outsourced manufacturing in the electronics industry. The final essays examine the societal implications of the diverse ways that information technologies are used-across individuals, groups, communities, and nations-and consider questions of access and the digital divide.

Synopsis

How people are using information technology to reshape the way the world communicates, works, and learns—across organizational boundaries and through all sectors of society.

About the Author, William H. Dutton

William H. Dutton is Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor of Internet Studies, and Professorial Fellow of Balliol College at the University of Oxford.

Brian Kahin is Senior Fellow at the Computer & Communications Industry Association in Washington, DC. He is also Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and a special advisor to the Provost's Office. He is a coeditor of Transforming Enterprise (MIT Press, 2004) and many other books.

Ramon O'Callaghan is Professor of Information Systems and Management at the School of Economics and Business Administration, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Andrew W. Wyckoff is Head of the Economic Analysis and Statistics Division, Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris.