Information, Organization and Management [Paperback]

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the economic and technical foundations for new organizational forms, relations and processes. It provides a wide range of underlying concepts and frameworks that help the reader understand the major forces driving organizational and marketplace change, rather than presenting these changes as simple outcomes of technological or management fads. Contains case studies are included.

Information, Organization and Management is a comprehensive treatment of the economic and technical foundations for new organizational forms, relations and processes. It provides a wide range of underlying concepts and frameworks that help the reader understand the major forces driving organizational and marketplace change, rather than presenting these changes as simple outcomes of technological or management fads. The book has a heavier than usual economic bent, yet also considers the human cognitive aspects. The emphasis throughout is on the total concepts, with subsections at the end of each chapter describing the role of information and the implications for management. The content is well worth reading. Paul Gray, Claremont Graduate School and University of California at Irvine.

Information, Organization, and Management: The Corporation Without Boundaries.- Market Dynamics and Competition: The Fundamental Role of Information.- Fundamental Information and Communication Models: Insights into Communication and Information Behavior.- The Potential of Information and Communication Technology for Corporate Development.- The Dissolving of Hierarchies  Modularizing the Enterprise.- Dissolution of the Company  Symbiosis and Networks.- New Forms of Market Coordination  Electronic Markets.- Overcoming Location Boundaries: Telecooperation and Virtual Enterprises.- People in the Boundaryless Organization: New Demands on Employees and Managers.- Controlling the Boundaryless Enterprise: Strategies and Control Systemslc&