Ebook: How Societies Embrace Information Technology: Lessons for Management and the Rest of Us

This book discusses how computers are shaping contemporary society, with a tight focus on the role of corporations and governments. It is aimed at government policymakers interested in economic development and at private-sector managers who routinely make decisions to acquire and use information technology, now a worldwide expenditure of over $2 trillion annually. The book will also interest a wide range of academics concerned with the sociology, history, economics, and the effects of IT on contemporary society, ands to the general trade market.Content:
Chapter 1 Introducing the Big Picture (pages 1–26):
Chapter 2 How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast (pages 27–70):
Chapter 3 How Governments Leverage Information Technology to Improve Their National Economies (pages 71–127):
Chapter 4 How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use (pages 129–161):
Chapter 5 Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age? (pages 163–190):
Chapter 6 An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers (pages 191–222):
Chapter 7 Looking Down the Road into the Twenty?First Century (pages 223–256):
Chapter 8 Keeping Up: Bibliographic Essay (pages 257–266):