Beschreibung:
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.
This book 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'.
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;