Kallinikos, Jannis.

The consequences of information : institutional implications of technological change / - Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2006. - ix, 205 pages ; Illustrations;

Includes index.

Organizations, information, networks -- Technology design and social systems -- Information growth as a self-referential process -- Excursus on meaning, purpose, and information -- Networks revisited -- Addendum on networks and institutions -- The organizational order of modernity -- Epilogue on technology and institutions.

A comprehensive and systematic investigation into the saturation of the modern world by information and its technologies, this title offers readers new ways of thinking the social and institutional consequences of this development.

9781845423285 1845423283 9781847205001 1847205003


Information technology - management.
Business enterprises - computer networks.

HD 30.2 / KAL