The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change

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Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2007 - Computers - 216 pages
Jannis Kallinikos analyzes the recent spectacular growth of information and the self-propelling processes through which technological information is increasingly generated out of the reshuffling and recombination of available and interoperable information
 

Contents

Organizations Information Networks
1
Technological Design and Social Systems
21
Information Growth as a SelfReferential Process
48
Excursus on Meaning Purpose and Information
76
Networks Revisited
86
Addendum on Networks and Institutions
111
The Organizational Order of Modernity
125
Epilogue on Technology and Institutions
154
Indicators and Patterns of Information Growth
164
References
179
Name Index
199
Subject Index
203
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Jannis Kallinikos, Professor in the Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics, UK

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